God do so] See 1 Kings 19:2. if the head of Elisha] He threatens his death, because he thought that Elisha might have confounded this army as well as that which came to Dothan, v. 18. or might have procured, food, as Elijah did rain, 1 King. 18. 44, 45. or that he might be the cause of this judgement, v. 33. 1 Kings 18:17. James 5:17.