2 Kungaboken 2:7

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Men femtio män av profetlärjungarna gingo ock åstad och ställde sig på något avstånd, längre bort, under det att de båda stodo vid Jordan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fifty men: 2 Kings 2:17, 1 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 18:13

to view afar off: Heb. in sight, or over against

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:35 - of the sons 2 Kings 2:3 - And the sons 2 Kings 2:15 - to view Amos 7:14 - neither Revelation 11:12 - and their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off,.... To have a view, if they could, of the assumption of Elijah to heaven, and be witnesses of it:

and they two stood by Jordan; on the banks of it, even Elijah and Elisha.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fifty men of the sons of the prophets - We see by this how large were the prophetical schools. It is implied that the “fifty” were only a portion of the school of Jericho. They ascended the abrupt heights behind the town, from where they would command a view of the whole course of the river and of the opposite bank for many miles.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 2:7. Fifty men of the sons of the prophets — They fully expected this extraordinary event, and they could have known it only from Elijah himself, or by a direct revelation from God.