1 Kings 19:17

1 Kings 19:17

15 Then the Lord said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; ^aand when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.

16 Also you shall anoint ^aJehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And ^bElisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.

17 ^aIt shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will ^bkill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, ^cElisha will kill.

18 ^aYet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, ^band every mouth that has not kissed him.”

Elisha Follows Elijah

19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his ^amantle on him.

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John Wesley's Notes

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Shall Elisha slay - One or other of these should infallibly execute God's judgments upon the apostate Israelites. Elisha is said to slay them, either, because he slew those forty two children, II Kings 2:24, besides others whom upon like occasions he might destroy; or, because he by God's appointment inflicted the famine, II Kings 8:1, or rather, by the sword which came out of his mouth: the prophets being said to pull down and to destroy what they declare and foretel shall be pulled down. Hazael began to slay them before Jehu was king, though his cruelty was much increased afterward. Jehu destroyed those whom Hazael did not, as king Joram himself, and Ahaziah, and all the near relations of Ahab.

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