15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
15 Elisha said, "Get a bow and some arrows," and he did so.
15 And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows." So he took a bow and arrows.
15 Elisha told him, "Go and get a bow and some arrows." The king brought him the bow and arrows.
15 And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and some arrows." So he took himself a bow and some arrows.
15 Elisha told him, "Get a bow and some arrows." And the king did as he was told.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Kings 13:15
Commentary on 2 Kings 13:10-19
(Read 2 Kings 13:10-19)
Jehoash, the king, came to Elisha, to receive his dying counsel and blessing. It may turn much to our spiritual advantage, to attend the sick-beds and death-beds of good men, that we may be encouraged in religion by the living comforts they have from it in a dying hour. Elisha assured the king of his success; yet he must look up to God for direction and strength; must reckon his own hands not enough, but go on, in dependence upon Divine aid. The trembling hands of the dying prophet, as they signified the power of God, gave this arrow more force than the hands of the king in his full strength. By contemning the sign, the king lost the thing signified, to the grief of the dying prophet. It is a trouble to good men, to see those to whom they wish well, forsake their own mercies, and to see them lose advantages against spiritual enemies.