4<\/strong>. And Elijah departed<\/em> ] i.e. to fulfil the command which had been given him by the angel. The LXX. adds ‘and spake unto them’. The compiler of the Kings leaves out here any mention of the first meeting of the messengers by the prophet, because it may be assumed that what the prophet was bidden to do, he did.<\/p>\n Therefore … – <\/B>As a punishment for this insult to Yahweh.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 4<\/span>. But shalt surely die.<\/B><\/I>] The true God tells you this; he in whose hands are both life and death, who can kill and make alive. Baal-zebub can do nothing; God has determined that your master shall die.<\/P> <\/p>\n Now therefore; <\/B>for this was a very heinous crime, to deny the perfections of God, and to transfer them to an idol. See Lev 19:31<\/span>; 20:6<\/span>,27<\/span>; Deu 18:10<\/span>. <\/P> Elijah departed; <\/B>the messengers not daring to apprehend him, as suspecting him to be more than man, because he knew the secret message which the king delivered to them in his bedchamber. <\/P> <\/p>\n 4. Thou shalt not come down fromthat bed<\/B>On being taken up, he had probably been laid on thedivana raised frame, about three feet broad, extended along thesides of a room, covered with cushions and mattressesserving, inshort, as a sofa by day and a bed by night, and ascended by steps. <\/P> Elijah departed<\/B>to hisordinary abode, which was then at Mount Carmel (2Ki 2:25<\/span>;1Ki 18:42<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n Now therefore thus saith the Lord<\/strong>,…. Jehovah, the only true God:<\/p>\n thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shall surely die<\/strong>; this sickness should be unto death, and the bed he had betaken himself to should be his deathbed. The phrases of going up to bed, and coming down, are used with great propriety; for in the eastern countries, in their bedchambers, they had a gallery raised four or five feet above the floor, with a balustrade on the front d, and steps leading up to it; or ladders, which had more or fewer rounds, according as the beds were higher or lower e:<\/p>\n and Elijah departed<\/strong>; having met the messengers, and delivered his message from the Lord unto them.<\/p>\n d See Dr. Shaw’s Travels, p. 209. Ed. 2. e Vid. Isidor. Origin. l. 20. c. 11. & Alstorph. de Lect. Vet. c. 2.<\/p>\n (4) Now therefore<\/strong>.For this act of faithlessness, and to prove by the event that there is a God in Israel, whose oracle is unerring. (Comp. 1Ki. 18:24<\/span>, seq.)<\/p>\n Thus saith.<\/strong>Or, hath said.<\/em> After these words the prophetic announcement comes in rather abruptly. Perhaps the verse has been abridged by the compiler, and in the original account from which he drew, the words of 2Ki. 1:6<\/span> may have followed here, Go, return to the king . . . Ekron.<\/p>\n And Eijah departed.<\/strong>On the Lords errand. The LXX. adds, and said unto them, or told them, which is perhaps due to a copyists eye having wandered to the words unto him, or unto them, in next verse (Thenius).<\/p>\n 2Ki 1:4<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Thou shalt not come down from that bed, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> At one end of each chamber in the eastern buildings there is a little gallery raised three, four, or five feet above the floor, having a ballustrade in the front, with a few steps likewise leading up to it. There they placed their beds; a situation frequently alluded to in the Scriptures. See Shaw’s Travels, p. 211, &c. <\/p>\n 2Ki 1:4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.<\/p>\n Ver. 4. Thou shalt surely die.<\/strong> ] Tempore non tuo<\/em> Ecc 7:17 then, when it were better for thee to do anything else than to die. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And Elijah departed.<\/strong> ] Vanished, say some; and that so amazed the messengers that they presently returned. But whether he vanished or departed, they had their errand.<\/p>\n shalt surely die. Same as Gen 2:17. <\/p>\n Thou shalt: etc. Heb. The bed whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it <\/p>\n but shalt: Gen 2:17, Gen 3:4, Num 26:65, 1Sa 28:19, 1Ki 14:12, Pro 11:19, Pro 14:32, Eze 18:4 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 31:14 – that thou must die 2Ki 1:6 – therefore 2Ki 1:16 – Forasmuch 2Ki 8:10 – he shall surely die Eze 3:18 – I say Luk 1:17 – power<\/p>\n Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed. 4. And Elijah departed ] i.e. to fulfil the command which had been given him by the angel. The LXX. adds ‘and spake unto them’. 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