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A Gift Only God Can Give
Commentators explain that Elijah called the request "a hard thing" because the power to grant a double portion of his spirit belonged to God alone. By setting the condition of seeing his departure, Elijah was not testing Elisha, but humbly acknowledging that the fulfillment of this great request rested entirely in God's sovereign will.
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Kings 2:10
18th Century
Theologian
It would be better to omit the words “when I am,” which are not in the original. The sign was to be Elisha’s seeing the actual translation, which h…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 2:10
19th Century
Bishop
You have asked a hard thing. —Because to grant such a petition was not in Elijah’s own power, but in God’s only. And ther…
John Gill
On 2 Kings 2:10
17th Century
Pastor
And he said, you have asked a hard thing
Not a common privilege, but what is rarely enjoyed, and difficult to obtain…
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 2:9–12
17th Century
Minister
That fullness, from which prophets and apostles had all their supply, still exists as before, and we are told to ask for large supplies from it. Di…