What does Ecclesiasticus Chapter 48 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Ecclesiasticus 48 portrays Elias as fire and his word as a torch. Famine, reduced numbers, closed heaven and fire three times accompany his command. Raising a dead man, bringing down kings, judgment at Sinai and Horeb, anointing kings for penance and appointing a prophet as successor are recalled. His ascent involves whirlwind, fiery chariot and horses. His appointed task concerns appeasing wrath, turning a father's heart to his son and restoring tribes. The difficult statement about life, death and his name remains in the evidence outline.

Eliseus receives Elias' spirit and is described as unafraid of princes, powerful in word and prophetic even in his body. Wonders in life and death receive praise, without inserting a scene of bones reviving a corpse. The people nevertheless fail to repent and face exile; the small remaining people under David's prince include both good and sinful people.

Ezechias strengthens the city and brings water through rock with iron. Sennacherib and Rabsaces threaten Sion; the people pray with raised hands. God hears, and the chapter connects their purification with Isaias and the Assyrian army's destruction with an angel. Ezechias follows David's way and the prophet's commands. The sun goes backward and his life is lengthened. Isaias' vision of later things comforts Sion's mourners; a sundial mechanism is not supplied here.