Plowing - Elisha’s occupation is an indication of his character. He is emphatically a man of peace. He spends the year in the rural occupati…

Twelve yoke of oxen, or (as Ewald renders it) of land, indicate some wealth in Elisha’s family, which he has to leave to follow th…

And found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, an…

So he departed thence
From Mount Horeb, and came to Abelmeholah, which Bunting computes ^F26 at one hundre…

Elijah found Elisha by Divine direction, not in the schools of the prophets, but in the field; not reading, or praying, or sacrificing, but ploughi…