With his horses and with his chariot. — Chariots. (See on 2 Kings 2:11-12; and comp. 2 Kings 5:15, infra.) The proper term for a single chariot is used in 2 Kings 5:21. The magnificence of his retinue is suggested.
Stood. — Stopped. The text hardly conveys, as Bähr thinks, the idea that Elisha’s house in Samaria was “a poor hovel,” which the great man would not deign to enter, but waited for the prophet to come forth to him. The prophet had “a messenger” (2 Kings 5:10) at his command.