John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 13:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Elisha died, and they buried him, etc.] In Samaria. Epiphanius says f136, in Sebastopolis of Samaria, Samaria itself was called Sebaste in later times; though the Jews say f137 he was buried in Mount Carmel, in the cave of Elijah; according to the Jewish chronology f138, 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 f139 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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