The water is naught, meaning it is "bad."

And the ground barren, meaning the land was "apt to miscarry." The stream was thought…

The men of the city. — It was not “the sons of the prophets,” but the citizens who put the prophet’s miraculous powers to…

And the men of the city said to Elisha
The inhabitants of Jericho, perceiving him to be a prophet, and endowed with …

Observe the miracle of healing the waters. Prophets should make every place to which they come better for its inhabitants, endeavoring to sweeten b…