2 Kings 3:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I, &c.? I desire not to have any discourse with thee. Get thee to the prophet of thy father, &c. Seek counsel and help of thy false prophets and of their gods, the calves, which thou, after thy father's example, worshippest; and the Baals, which thy mother yet worships by thy permission. Let these idols, which thou servest in thy prosperity, now help thee in thy distress. The king of Israel said, Nay, &c. That is, I will not consult them; but do thou now give us counsel how we may be extricated from this great distress. For the Lord hath called, &c. He was sensible it was by the particular providence of the God of Israel that he was brought into this strait, and perhaps secretly he believed in Jehovah alone as the true God, though, for political reasons, he worshipped the calves.