2 Kings 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The word of the Lord is with him; we may inquire the mind of God by him, for he is a true prophet; which Jehoshaphat might easily understand, because being a good man, and a great favourer of the Lord's prophets, he would diligently inquire, and many persons would be ready to inform him, of all things of that nature, and, amongst others, of Elijah's calling of Elisha by casting his prophetical mantle over him, 1 Kings 19:19, and of Elijah's translation and Elisha's substitution in his place, and of the proof of it, 2 Kings 2:8,14. Down to him; to his tent; which was either in the camp, or not far from it; for he went along with the army by the impulse of God's Spirit for this very occasion. They did not send for him, but went to him, that by giving him this honour they might more effectually engage him to give them his utmost assistance; and because they had heard that he was a man of a rugged temper and carriage, who therefore was to be sweetened, and so disposed to pity and relieve them.