Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 3:13

13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee ? Get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother . And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay : for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

I desire to have no discourse nor converse with thee.

i. e. To the Calves, which thou after thy Fathers example dost worship; and to the Baals which thy Mother yet worshippeth by thy permission; and to which thy heart is yet inclined, though thou hast destroyed one of his Images for politick reasons. Let these Idols whom thou worshippest in thy Prosperity, now help thee in thy distress.

I renounce those false Prophets and Baals, and will seek to none but God for help.

If thou hast no respect for me, yet pity this innocent King of Edom, and good Iehoshaphat, who are involved in the same danger with my self.

Marginal references: So Judg. 10. 14. [illegible: 1 word] 1. 15.