2nd Kings Chapter 13 verse 20 Holy Bible
And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
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And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.
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And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
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And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
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And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
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Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
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And Elisha dieth, and they bury him, and troops of Moab come in to the land, at the coming in of the year,
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2nd Kings 13 : 20 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - And Elisha died, and they buried him. There had been no burial of Elijah, who" went up by a whirlwind into heaven" (2 Kings 2:11). All the more anxious, therefore, would the Israelites be to bury their second great prophet with due honor. They prepared him, no doubt, one of those excavated sepulchers which were usual at the time and in the country - a squared or vaulted chamber cut in the native rock. St. Jerome says that the place of his sepulture was near Samaria ('Epitaph. Paulae'), and this is sufficiently probable; but in the Middle Ages his grave was shown at Ruma, in Galilee (Ewald, 'Hist. of Israel,' vol. 4. p. 122, note 3). According to Josephus ('Ant. Jud.,' 9:8. ยง 6), his funeral was magnificent. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. It seems to be implied that this was a usual occurrence. Just as the Syrians in the days of Naaman made marauding raids into the land from time to time (2 Kings 5:2), so now the Moabites each spring made an incursion. The weakness of Israel is strongly marked by this fact, and still more by the penetration of the Moabites so deep into their country. Amos 2:1 perhaps glances at these incursions of Moab.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) And the bands of the Moabites invaded.--Rather, And troops of Moabites used to invade. They took advantage of the weakened condition of Israel to revenge the devastation of their country described in 2Kings 3:25.At the coming in of the year.--So the Targum and the LXX. The Syriac, Vulg., and Arabic understand," in that (or, 'the same') year." The preposition b? has probably fallen out of the Hebrew text: read, b?bo sh?n?h, "when the year came in"--i.e., in the spring. (Comp. 2Samuel 11:1.)
