Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 10:10

10 Know now, that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah .

But the truth is, neither I nor they are to be blamed; nor you that assisted and encouraged me herein: for this is not mans work, but Gods, and done by his command.

Whom he mentions, rather than Elisha; partly, because Elijah was now dead, and therefore his [illegible: 1+ letters]me and memory was more Sacred than Elisha's, who was yet alive; this being the common humour and folly of Mankind, to value and honour those that are dead, whom they contemned whilst they lived: and partly, because Elijah's Prophecy was known, and publick, and famous; when Elisha's was delivered in a corner, and that not from his own mouth, but by one of the Sons of the Prophets.

Marginal references: 1 Kin. 21. 29▪; Heb. by the hand of.