2 Kings 3:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

What have I to do with thee? I desire to have no discourse nor converse with thee. To the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother, i.e. to the calves, which thou after thy father's example dost worship; and to the Baals which thy mother yet Worshippeth by thy permission, and to which thy heart is yet inclined, though thou hast destroyed one of his images for politic reasons. Let these idols whom thou worshippest in thy prosperity now help thee in thy distress. Nay, I renounce those false prophets and Baals, and will seek to none but God for help. These three kings: if thou hast no respect for me, yet pity this innocent king of Edom, and good Jehoshaphat, who are involved in the same danger with myself.

2 Kings 3:13

13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.