To view — To observe this great event, Elijah's translation to heaven, which they expected every moment: and whereof they desired to be spectators, not to satisfy their own curiosity, but that they might be witnesses of it to others.
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2 Kings 2:7
7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to viewa afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.