Verse 1
1. The sons of the prophets The members of one of the prophetical schools, probably the one at Jericho. Compare 2 Kings 2:5.
The place where we dwell The house we occupy here at Jericho. Gilgal, which many expositors have supposed to be the place here referred to, was too far from the Jordan to meet well the conditions of this narrative, and the Gilgal where the prophets had a school was certainly not the spot where Joshua first pitched his camp after crossing the Jordan. See note on 2 Kings 2:1.
Too strait for us Too small for our accommodation. The numbers of the prophets seem to have increased, both in Judah and Israel, in proportion to the increasing wickedness of the two kingdoms. Here, too, it appears that the prophets dwelt in houses of their own; probably rude huts or booths, which their own hands had made. So in Samuel’s time they had their habitations ( Naioth) near Ramah. See note on 1 Samuel 19:19.
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