Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 6:31

31 Then he said, God do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day .

If I do not this day take his head and life. This wretched and partial Prince overlooks his own great and various sins, and amongst others his obstinate cleaving to the Idolatry of the Calves, and the Whoredoms and Witchcrafts of his Mother Iezabel, 2 King. 9. 22. and the Wickedness of his People, which was the true and proper cause of this and all their Calamities; and lays the blame of all upon Elisha, either, supposing that he who had the Spirit of Elijah resting upon him, had brought this Famine by his Prayers, as Elijah had formerly done, 1 King. 17. 1. or, because he had encouraged them to withstand the Syrians, by promising them help from God in due time: or, because he would not by his intercession to God, and the working of a Miracle, deliver them from these Calamities, as he easily could have done. But he did not consider, that the Prophets could not work what Miracles, and when they pleased, but onely as far as God saw fit, whose time was not yet come; otherwise it was Elisha's Interest as well as theirs to be freed from this distress.

Marginal references: Ruth 1. 17.