And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they came again to him, for he tarried at Jericho,.... Waiting their return to hear the report they made: which when they had:
he said unto them, did I not say unto you, go not? assuring…
Barnes' Notes
Till he was ashamed - i. e. to refuse them any longer.
Adam Clarke
Till he was ashamed - He saw they would not be satisfied unless they made the proposed search; he felt therefore that he could not, with any good grace, resist their importunity any longer.
We have here an account of what followed immediately after the translation of Elijah.
I. The tokens of God's presence with Elisha, and the marks of his elevation into Elijah's room, to be, as he had…
Cambridge Bible
tillhe was ashamed i.e. to refuse longer so urgent, though as he knew resultless, a petition. There is no pronoun expressed in the original. Hence some have thought the expression meant -to a shameful…
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