1 Reis 19:19

O Chamado de Eliseu

19 Então Elias saiu de lá e encontrou Eliseu, filho de Safate. Ele estava arando com doze parelhas de bois e conduzindo a décima segunda parelha. Elias o alcançou e lançou sua capa sobre ele.

1 Reis 19:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 19:19

So he departed thence
From Mount Horeb, and came to Abelmeholah, which Bunting computes ^F26 at one hundred and fifty six miles:

and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke
of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth;
which may be understood either of twelve couple of oxen drawing one plough; which was a large number, but will not seem strange when it is observed, that Abelmeholah, where Elisha was ploughing, lay in the vale of Jordan, which was a clayey stiff ground, and required such a number of oxen to plough it up, especially at the first tilling of it, as this might be {a}; compare ( 1 Kings 4:12 ) ( 7:46 ) A late traveller ^F2 observes, that at Damegraed, in upper Egypt on the Nile, six oxen yoked to plough had a great deal of difficulty to turn up the ground; or else, as the Jewish writers generally understand it, there were twelve ploughs, and a yoke of oxen to each, and a ploughman to attend everyone, and Elisha attended the twelfth; or was with one of the twelve, as the Targum, and might have the oversight of them all; Kimchi thinks, and so Abarbiuel after him, that this signified that he should be leader of the twelve tribes of Israel: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him;
the skirts of it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Travels p. 204.
F1 See Fuller's Pisgah-Sight B. 2. ch. 8. p. 175.
F2 Norden's Travels in Egypt and Arabia, vol. 2. p. 85.

1 Reis 19:19 In-Context

17 Jeú matará todo aquele que escapar da espada de Hazael, e Eliseu matará todo aquele que escapar da espada de Jeú.

18 No entanto, fiz sobrar sete mil em Israel, todos aqueles cujos joelhos não se inclinaram diante de Baal e todos aqueles cujas bocas não o beijaram”.

19 Então Elias saiu de lá e encontrou Eliseu, filho de Safate. Ele estava arando com doze parelhas de bois e conduzindo a décima segunda parelha. Elias o alcançou e lançou sua capa sobre ele.

20 Eliseu deixou os bois e correu atrás de Elias. “Deixa-me dar um beijo de despedida em meu pai e minha mãe”, disse, “e então irei contigo”.“Vá e volte”, respondeu Elias; “lembre-se do que fiz a você”.

21 E Eliseu voltou, apanhou a sua parelha de bois e os matou. Queimou o equipamento de arar para cozinhar a carne e a deu ao povo, e eles comeram. Depois partiu com Elias, tornando-se o seu auxiliar.