Lièwángjìxià 13:20

20 Yǐlìshā sǐ le , rén jiāng tā zàng mán . dào le xīnnián , yǒu yī qún Móyē rén fàn jìng ,

Lièwángjìxià 13:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 13:20

And Elisha died, and they buried him
In Samaria. Epiphanius says ^F14, in Sebastopolis of Samaria, Samaria itself was called Sebaste in later times; though the Jews say ^F15 he was buried in Mount Carmel, in the cave of Elijah; according to the Jewish chronology {p}, he died in the tenth year of Joash, and he prophesied more than sixty years; sixty six, as Abarbinel, since he began to prophesy in the nineteenth year of Jehoshaphat; and, according to Clemens ^F17 of Alexandria, when he was forty years of age; but it seems rather, as Kimchi observes, that he died in the beginning of the reign of Joash, and even before his father's death, when he was a partner with him in the throne, and before any salvation or deliverance from the Syrians was wrought:

and the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the
year;
at the spring of the year, when there was fruit on the earth, those troops of robbers came to plunder and spoil; several of the Jewish writers observe, that in the word for "coming", (h) is instead of (a) , and so may be rendered "in that year", in that selfsame year that Elisha died; and so read the Syriac, Arabic, and the Vulgate Latin versions.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 De Vitis Prophet. c. 6.
F15 Cippi Heb. p. 46.
F16 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 19.
F17 Stromat. l. 1. p. 326.

Lièwángjìxià 13:20 In-Context

18 Yǐlìshā yòu shuō , qǔ jǐ zhī jiàn lái . tā jiù qǔ le lái . Yǐlìshā shuō , dá dì ba . tā dá le sān cì , biàn zhǐ zhù le .

19 Shén rén xiàng tā fānù , shuō , yīngdāng jī dá wǔ liù cì , jiù néng gōngdǎ Yàlán rén zhídào miè jǐn . xiànzaì zhǐ néng dá baì Yàlán rén sān cì .

20 Yǐlìshā sǐ le , rén jiāng tā zàng mán . dào le xīnnián , yǒu yī qún Móyē rén fàn jìng ,

21 Yǒu rén zhēng zàng sǐ rén , hūrán kànjian yī qún rén , jiù bǎ sǐ rén pāo zaì Yǐlìshā de fùnmù lǐ , yī pèng zhe Yǐlìshā de háigǔ , sǐ rén jiù fùhuó , zhàn qǐlai le .

22 Yuē hā sī nián jiān , Yàlán wáng hā xuē lǚcì qīyē Yǐsèliè rén .