Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Kings 2

2 Kings 2:1 (a) Which was the place where the children of Israel were circumcised after they came ouer Jorden & had bene fourtie yeres in the wildernes, as {Josh. 5, 9}

2 Kings 2:1 (!) Eliiah deuideth the waters with his cloke.

2 Kings 2:3 (c) That is, from being any more thine head: for to be as the head, is to be the master, as to be at the fete, is to be a scholar.

2 Kings 2:3 (d) For the Lord had reuiled it vnto him.

2 Kings 2:3 (b) So called because they are begotten as it were anewe by the heauenlie doctrine.

2 Kings 2:5 (e) Not onely at Beth-el, but at Jericho and other places were there Prophetes, which had scholars, whome they instructied and broght vp in the true feare of God.

2 Kings 2:8 (f) To wit, of Jorden.

2 Kings 2:9 (g) Let thy Spirit haue double force in me, because of these dangerous times: or let me haue twise so muche as the rest of the Prophetes: or thy spirit being deuided into thre partes, let me haue two.

2 Kings 2:11 (!) He is taken up into heaven.

2 Kings 2:11 (h) Thus God hathe left a testimonie in all ages bothe before the Lawe, in the Lawe, & in the time of the Gospel of the resurrection.

2 Kings 2:13 (!) Elisha taketh his cloke & deuideth Jorden.

2 Kings 2:15 (i) The Spirit of prophecie is giuen to him, as it was to Eliiah.

2 Kings 2:16 (l) Because the fact was extraordinarie, thei douted where he was become, but Elisha was assured that he was taken vp to God.

2 Kings 2:16 (k) Meaning Eliiah: for they thoght his bodie had bene cast in some mountaine.

2 Kings 2:19 (/) Or, killeth the inhabitants.

2 Kings 2:20 (!) The bitter and venemous waters are healed.

2 Kings 2:21 (m) Thus God gaue him power, euen contrary to nature, to make that water profitable for mans vse, which before was hurtful.

2 Kings 2:23 (!) The children that mocke Elisha, are rent in pieces with beares.

2 Kings 2:24 (n) Perceiuing their malicious heart against the Lord and his worde, he desireth God to take vengeance of that injurie done vnto him.