Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Under him; his own guards. The captain was to request him to pray for the king’s recovery; ( Calmet.) or rather, ( Bible.) to punish him for what he had said to the messengers. Calmet.—Of God. Procopius and others think that he spoke contemptuously, and was therefore punished. Menochius.—Down. The prophets are not bound to obey kings, in the exercise of their ministry. Grotius.—Elias complies as soon as he had orders from God. Calmet.
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.