Teks -- 2 Kings 2:4 (NET)

2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 2Ki 2:1-7 - when the Lord would take up Elijah

A revelation of this event had been made to the prophet; but, unknown to him, it had also been revealed to his disciples, and to Elisha in particular, who kept constantly beside him.

JFB: 2Ki 2:1-7 - Gilgal

This Gilgal (Jiljil) was near Ebal and Gerizim; a school of the prophets was established there. At Beth-el there was also a school of the prophets, which Elijah had founded, notwithstanding that place was the headquarters of the calf-worship; and at Jericho there was another [2Ki 2:4]. In travelling to these places, which he had done through the impulse of the Spirit (2Ki 2:2, 2Ki 2:4-6), Elijah wished to pay a farewell visit to these several institutions, which lay on his way to the place of ascension and, at the same time, from a feeling of humility and modesty, to be in solitude, where there would be no eye-witnesses of his glorification. All his efforts, however, to prevail on his attendant to remain behind, were fruitless. Elisha knew that the time was at hand, and at every place the sons of the prophets spoke to him of the approaching removal of his master. Their last stage was at the Jordan. They were followed at a distance by fifty scholars of the prophets, from Jericho, who were desirous, in honor of the great occasion, to witness the miraculous translation of the prophet. The revelation of this striking event to so many was a necessary part of the dispensation; for it was designed to be under the law, like that of Enoch in the patriarchal age, a visible proof of another state, and a type of the resurrection of Christ.

TSK: 2Ki 2:4 - Jericho // As the Lord

Jericho : Jos 6:26; 1Ki 16:34; Luk 19:1

As the Lord : 2Ki 2:2, 2Ki 4:30; Act 2:42, Act 11:23

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: 2Ki 2:4 - And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee // for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho // and he said, as the lord liveth // so they came to Jericho

And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee,.... At Bethel:

for the Lord hath sent me to Jericho; to the school of the prophets there, to strengthen, encourage, and advise them:

and he said, as the lord liveth, &c; using the same form of oath as before:

so they came to Jericho; together, which, as the above writer says ⁱ, was four miles from Bethel.