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Burning the Plows
Commentators unanimously highlight that Elisha's actions were deeply symbolic. By slaughtering the very oxen he was plowing with and using his wooden farming implements as fuel for the fire, he made a decisive and public break with his former life. This act demonstrated his total commitment to his new calling, leaving no option for turning back.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Kings 19:21
18th Century
Theologian
Elisha returns to his oxen and laborers. He signals his relinquishment of his home and former calling by slaughtering the specific yoke of oxen he …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 19:21
19th Century
Bishop
And he returned. —Like Matthew in Luke 9:27-29, Elisha, probably after sacrifice, makes a feast of farewell to his home, and of ho…
John Gill
On 1 Kings 19:21
17th Century
Pastor
And he returned back from him
To his father's house, and took his leave, and then came back into the field, perhaps …
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 19:19–21
17th Century
Minister
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…