Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 2:22
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke.
22. unto this day ] A note of a faithful reproduction by the compiler of what was written in some earlier document. See note on 1Ki 9:21. There is but one spring in the neighbourhood of Jericho, called now Ain es Sultan, and this is probably the same which existed in Elisha’s time. Its waters spread over the plain of Jericho.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. In the name of the Lord; and not only they remained so unto the time of the writer of this history, but to the times of Josephus, as he testifies s, and even to ours; for there is a spring now called Elisha’s spring or fountain, of which Mr. Maundrell says t,
“its waters are at present received in a basin about nine or ten paces long, and five or six broad; and from thence issuing out in good plenty, divide themselves into several small streams, dispersing their refreshment to all the field between this and Jericho, and rendering it exceeding fruitful.”
So some other travellers u say of it, that the water is very clear and cool, and issues in a copious steam. Pliny w gives it the name of “Calirroe”, the beautiful stream, and speaks of it as hot, wholesome, and medicinal, and of great note.
s De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 3. t Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 80. u Egmont and Heyman’s Travels, vol. 1. p. 331. w Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 16.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ki 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
Ver. 22. So the waters were healed. ] By Elisha; who was willing to gratify his hosts of Jericho, to remunerate their courtesy, and to convert them “from dumb idols to the living and true God.”