2 Kings 2:4

“And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee, etc.] At Bethel: for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho; to the school of the prophets there, to strengthen, encourage, and advise them: and he said, as the lord liveth, etc; using the same form of oath as before: so they came to Jericho; together, which, as the above writer says f9, was four miles from Bethel.”

“Jericho: Jos 6:26; Kg1 16:34; Luk 19:1 As the Lord: Kg2 2:2, Kg2 4:30; Act 2:42, Act 11:23 4 Kings (2 Kings) 2:5”

“In Bethel, and again in Jericho, to which they both proceeded from Bethel, Elijah repeated the appeal to Elisha to stay there, but always in vain. The taking away of Elijah had also been revealed to the disciples of the prophets at Jericho. Thus they both came to the Jordan, whilst fifty disciples of the prophets from Jericho followed them at a distance, to be eye-witnesses of the miraculous translation of their master. The course which Elijah took before his departure from this earth, viz., from Gilgal past Bethel and Jericho, was not merely occasioned by the fact that he was obliged to touch at these places on the way to the Jordan, but had evidently also the same higher purpose, for which…”