And Elijah said. —The exact repetition of the language of 2 Kings 2:2–3 in this and the next two verses appea…

And Elijah said to him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray you
At Bethel:

for the Lord has sent me to Jer…

The Lord had let Elijah know that his time was at hand. He therefore went to the different schools of the prophets to give them his last exhortatio…