2 Kings 13:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Wept over his face; not for any true love and respect to him, for then he would have followed his counsel, in forsaking the calves, and returning to the Lord; but for his own and the kingdom's inestimable loss in him. The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof: see 2 Kings 2:12.

2 Kings 13:14

14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.