Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
Thou shalt not come down from that bed. On being taken up, he had probably been laid on the divan-a raised frame about three feet broad, extending along the sides of a room, covered with cushions and mattresses, serving, in short, as a sofa by day and a bed by night, and ascended by steps. (Genesis 49:4; Psalms 132:3: cf. 2 Kings 20:2; also 1 Kings 20:4).
Elijah departed - to his ordinary abode, which was then at mount Carmel (2 Kings 2:25; 2 Kings 1 Kin. 17:42).