2 Reyes 2:11

11 Iban caminando y conversando cuando, de pronto, los separó un carro de fuego con caballos de fuego, y Elías subió al cielo en medio de un torbellino.

2 Reyes 2:11 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 2:11

And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked
About the donation of the gifts of the Spirit requested, about the state of religion in Israel, and about the training up of prophets in the colleges, and about Elisha's succession as a prophet in his room, and his discharge of that office, and such like things, as may be supposed, in which he gave him instruction and advice:

that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire;
either angels in this form, see ( Psalms 104:4 ) ( 68:17 ) , in which they appeared for the glory and honour of the prophet, and as emblems of his flaming love and zeal for the purity of religion, and that his assumption might be conspicuous to Elisha; and perhaps by this means might be seen by the fifty men on the other side Jordan: this chariot, drawn with these horses, was not seen in the heaven, but as running on the earth, and came between the two prophets, and separated them from each other, taking up Elijah into it by means of a wind whirling about him, and which was no other than the ministry of angels; or these might be a conflux of exhalations or clouds, formed in this likeness by a supernatural power, and, by the solar rays striking on them, might appear fiery or red; and so his assumption was much in such like manner as our Lord was taken up in a cloud, ( Acts 1:9 ) ,

and Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven;
body and soul; such a change passing on him, as he went through the region of the air, which divested him of his mortality and corruption, and fitted him for the invisible world.

2 Reyes 2:11 In-Context

9 Al cruzar, Elías le preguntó a Eliseo:—¿Qué quieres que haga por ti antes de que me separen de tu lado?—Te pido que sea yo el heredero de tu espíritu por partida doble —respondió Eliseo.

10 —Has pedido algo difícil —le dijo Elías—, pero si logras verme cuando me separen de tu lado, te será concedido; de lo contrario, no.

11 Iban caminando y conversando cuando, de pronto, los separó un carro de fuego con caballos de fuego, y Elías subió al cielo en medio de un torbellino.

12 Eliseo, viendo lo que pasaba, se puso a gritar: «¡Padre mío, padre mío, carro y fuerza conductora de Israel!» Pero no volvió a verlo.Entonces agarró su ropa y la rasgó en dos.

13 Luego recogió el manto que se le había caído a Elías y, regresando a la orilla del Jordán,