For what have I done to thee?— It seems very difficult to give any satisfactory explanation of these words as they stand in our version. They might be rendered for I have done something to thee: Elijah giving Elisha to understand, that, by casting his mantle upon him, he was thus appointed to follow him, and afterwards to have his spirit. Houbigant renders the whole clause, Go and return, bearing in mind what I have done unto thee.
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1 Kings 19:20
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?