Thou shalt not come down from that bed - On being taken up, he had probably been laid on the divan - a raised frame, about three feet broad, extended along the sides of a room, covered with cushions and mattresses - serving, in short, as a sofa by day and a bed by night, and ascended by steps.
Elijah departed - to his ordinary abode, which was then at Mount Carmel (2Ki 2:25; 1Ki 18:42).