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The UBS Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. They are prepared primarily to assist Bible translators as they carry out the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. The text is discussed verse by verse, and is accompanied by running text in at...

19:19 He departed from there: Verses 15–18 mention several different people, including Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha, so the antecedent of the pronoun he at the beginning of this verse may be initially ambiguous even if a new section does not begin here. But since GNT begins a new section here, it becomes necessary for the sake of clarity to substitute the name “Elijah” for the pronoun he (also NAB, NIV, NBS, and others.) Since verse 16 identified Elisha as the son of Shaphat, GNT omits this information
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