2 Re 13:20

20 L’anno seguente delle bande di Moabiti fecero una scorreria nel paese;

2 Re 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.

2 Re 13:20 In-Context

18 Poi disse: "Prendi le frecce!" Joas le prese, ed Eliseo disse al re d’Israele: "Percuoti il suolo"; ed egli lo percosse tre volte, indi si fermò.

19 L’uomo di Dio si adirò contro di lui, e disse: "Avresti dovuto percuoterlo cinque o sei volte; allora tu avresti sconfitto i Siri fino a sterminarli; mentre adesso non li sconfiggerai che tre volte". Eliseo morì, e fu sepolto.

20 L’anno seguente delle bande di Moabiti fecero una scorreria nel paese;

21 e avvenne, mentre certuni stavano seppellendo un morto, che scorsero una di quelle bande, e gettarono il morto nel sepolcro di Eliseo. Il morto, non appena ebbe toccate le ossa di Eliseo, risuscitò, e si levò in piedi.

22 Or Hazael, re di Siria, aveva oppresso gl’Israeliti durante tutta la vita di Joachaz;