2 Kings 2:16

And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
said	וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ vai.yo.me.Ru	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
be	יֵֽשׁ yesh-	H3426	there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
servants	עֲבָדֶיךָ֩ 'a.va.dei.Kha	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
fifty	חֲמִשִּׁ֨ים cha.mi.Shim	H2572	fifty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
strong	חַ֗יִל Cha.yil	H2428	probably a force · noun, common masculine singular absolute
men	בְּנֵֽי be.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
go	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
seek	וִיבַקְשׁ֣וּ vi.vak.Shu	H1245	to search out (by any method · conjunction + verb, piel, 3rd person masculine plural
master	אֲדֹנֶיךָ֒ 'a.do.nei.Kha	H113	sovereign · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
Spirit	ר֣וּחַ Ru.ach	H7307	wind · noun, common feminine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֔ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
up	נְשָׂאוֹ֙ ne.sa.'O	H5375	to lift · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
cast	וַיַּשְׁלִכֵ֙הוּ֙ vai.yash.li.Khe.hu	H7993	to throw out · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
some	בְּאַחַ֣ד be.'a.Chad	H259	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
mountain	הֶהָרִ֔ים he.ha.Rim	H2022	a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
some	בְּאַחַ֣ת be.'a.Chat	H259	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
valley	הַגֵּאָי֑וֹת ha.ge.ya.'ot	H1516	a gorge (from its lofty sides · definite article + noun, common both genders plural absolute
said	וַיֹּ֖אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
send	תִשְׁלָֽחוּ tish.La.chu	H7971	to send away · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Kings 18:12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I co…
Acts 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his…
Ezekiel 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon m…
Ezekiel 8:3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and…
Ezekiel 11:24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that…
Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on th…
2 Corinthians 12:2-3 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:13-18

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 been, a father to the sons of the prophets, and the chariots and horsemen of Israel. 1. He was possessed of Elijah's mantle, the badge of his office, which, we may suppose, he put on and wore for his master's sake, Kg2 2:13. When Elijah went to heaven, though he did not let fall his body as others do, he let fall his mantle instead of it; for he was unclothed, that he might be clothed upon with immortality: he was going to a world where he needed not the mantle to adorn him, nor to shelter him fr…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 2:16

fifty strong men, let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master--Though the young prophets from Jericho had seen Elijah's miraculous passage of the Jordan, they had not witnessed the ascension. They imagined that he might have been cast by the whirlwind on some mountain or valley; or, if he had actually been admitted into heaven, they expected that his body would still be remaining somewhere on earth. In compliance with their importunity, he gave them permission, but told them what the result would be.

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 2:16

Fifty strong men - Probably the same fifty who are mentioned Kg2 2:7, and who saw Elijah taken up in the whirlwind. Cast him upon some mountain - Though they saw him taken up towards heaven, yet they thought it possible that the Spirit of the Lord might have descended with him, and left him on some remote mountain or valley. Ye shall not send - He knew that he was translated to heaven, and that therefore it would be useless.

John Gill on 2 Kings 2:16

And they said unto him, behold, now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men,.... Perhaps meaning themselves, 2 Kings 2:7 who were young, stout, and strong, and able to travel for days together: let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master; for though they knew he was to be taken away, yet knew not for what time, and imagined he might be found again: lest peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up; as it seems he was wont to do, see 1 Kings 18:12. and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley; where he sometimes had his abode; or they might fancy, if he was taken up to heaven, yet in his soul only, and that, when that was separated, his dead body would be left on a…

The Church Fathers

The power of Christ Jesus is what makes men into sons. And if anyone is a man of power, he is clearly a son of Christ. But sometimes the powers under Christ cannot make sons; and if they do make them, they do not make men but infants.
— Origen of Alexandria, FRAGMENTS ON KINGDOMS 21

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Elijah — Whose God is Jehovah. (1.) “The Tishbite,” the “Elias” of the New Testament, is suddenly introduced to our notice in 1 Kings 17:1 as delivering a message from the Lord to Ahab. There is mention made…
Jericho — Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was…
Ascension · Of Elijah — Of Elijah

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 2:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:13-18

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 2:16

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 2:16

John Gill on 2 Kings 2:16

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

2 Kings 2:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 2:13-18

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 2:16

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 2:16

John Gill on 2 Kings 2:16

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 2:16-22

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 2:16-18

Rashi on 2 Kings 2:16