SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:15
Y le dijo el SEÑOR: Ve, vuélvete por tu camino, por el desierto de Damasco; y llegarás, y ungirás a Hazael por rey de Siria;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 19:15
Verse 15. To the wilderness of Damascus] He does not desire him to take a road by which he might be likely to meet Jezebel, or any other of his enemies. Anoint Hazael] For what reason the Lord was about to make all these revolutions, we are told in ver. 17. God was about to bring his judgments upon the land, and especially on the house of Ahab. This he exterminated by means of Jehu; and Jehu himself was a scourge of the Lord to the people. Hazael also grievously afflicted Israel; see the accomplishment of these purposes, 2 Kings 8, and 9.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. And the Lord said unto him, go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus , etc.] He is bid to go back the way he came, through the wilderness of Arabia, which was part of his way to Damascus, near to which was another wilderness, which took its name from thence; though Fortunatus Schacchus thinks no other is meant by this phrase than returning to his former course and custom of preach the law of God, and reclaiming men from the error of their ways: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria ; it is nowhere related that Elijah did go to Damascus, and anoint Hazael, though it may be he did; however he acquainted Elisha with it, and he declared it to Hazael, that he should be king of Syria, and which perhaps is all that is meant by anointing; that is, that he should be made king, and which was declared by both these prophets, (see 2 Kings 8:13).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-18 - God repeated the question, What doest thou here? Then he complained of his discouragement; and whither should God's prophets go with their complaints of that kind, but to their Master? The Lord gave him a answer. He declares that the wicked house of Ahab shall be rooted out that the people of Israel shall be punished for their sins; and he shows that Elijah was not left alone as he had supposed, and also tha a helper should at once be raised up for him. Thus all his complaint are answered and provided for. God's faithful ones are often his hidde ones, Ps 83:3, and the visible church is scarcely to be seen: the whea is lost in chaff, and the gold in dross, till the sifting, refining separating day comes. The Lord knows them that are his, though we d not; he sees in secret. When we come to heaven we shall miss many who we thought to have met there; we shall meet many whom we little though to have met there. God's love often proves larger than man's charity and far more extended.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 יהוה 3068 אליו 413 לך 1980 שׁוב 7725 לדרכך 1870 מדברה 4057 דמשׂק 1834 ובאת 935 ומשׁחת 4886 את 853 חזאל 2371 למלך 4428 על 5921 ארם׃ 758
