twelve: seven separate ploughs following each other. Often seen to-day.
mantle. Compare Zechariah 13:4.
Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 19:19
1 Kings 19:19
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.