Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
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Gill's Exposition
And while he yet talked with them,.... Elisha with the elders:
behold, the messenger came down unto him; sent by the king:
and he said; either the messenger in the king's name, or rather the king,…
Barnes' Notes
God do so ... - Jehoram uses almost the very words of his wicked mother, when she sought the life of Elijah (marginal reference). The head of Elisha - Beheading was not an ordinary Jewish punishment.…
Adam Clarke
If the head of Elisha - shall stand on him - Either he attributed these calamities to the prophet, or else he thought he could remove them, and yet would not. The miserable king was driven to…
This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is,
I. The siege which the king…
Cambridge Bible
if the head of Elisha … shall stand on him this day We must suppose that Elisha had not been wanting in admonitions to both king and people during this terrible siege, and the anger of Jehoram was…
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