Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 2:16
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2 Kings2:16
16 ¶ And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men , let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master, lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley . And he said, Ye shall not send.
Able to take such a journey.
They thought, either 1. That God had not finally taken him away from them, but onely for a time; comp. 1 King. 18. 12. which they heartily desired, and therefore easily believed; or that God had onely taken away his Soul, and that his Body was cast down into some place, which they desired to seek, that they might give it an honourable Bu[illegible: 1+ letters]ial.
Marginal references: Heb. sons of strength.; Ezek. 8. 3. Act. 8. 39.; Heb. one of the Mountains
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