2 Kings 4:28
What meaning of the 2 kings 4:28 in the Bible?
What does 2 Kings 4:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?"
What does 2 Kings 4:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?"
Verse 28. _DID I DESIRE A SON OF MY LORD?_] I expressed no such wish to thee; I was contented and happy; and when thou didst promise me a son, _did I not say, Do not deceive me_? Do not mock me with a...
Great grief shrinks from putting itself into words. The Shunammite cannot bring herself to say, “My son is dead;” but by reproaching the prophet with having “deceived” her, she sufficiently indicates...
3. THE MIRACLES CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The widow's oil multiplied (2 Kings 4:1)_ 2. The Shunammite and her reward (2 Kings 4:8) 3. The son of the Shunammite raised from the dead (2 Kings 4:18) 4. The dea...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN. This gives one of the most delightful pictures of rural life in ancient Israel. It describes the kindly hospitality of the great lady of Shunem, the accommodation prov...
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_Did I desire a son_ The words are almost reproachful and make it clear to the prophet that the child is dead. Better had it been for her not to have had the child given to her, than now to have the g...
C. RESURRECTION OF THE SHUNAMMITE'S Song of Solomon 4:18-37 TRANSLATION (18) And the child grew, and it came to pass one day that he went unto his father to the reapers. (19) And he said unto his fat...
_AND WHEN SHE CAME TO THE MAN OF GOD TO THE HILL, SHE CAUGHT HIM BY THE FEET: BUT GEHAZI CAME NEAR TO THRUST HER AWAY. AND THE MAN OF GOD SAID, LET HER ALONE; FOR HER SOUL IS VEXED WITHIN HER: AND THE...
VARIOUS MIRACLES OF ELISHA The miracles related of Elisha in this and the following Chapter s resemble many of those previously recounted of Elijah. Thus both prophets multiplied the sustenance of a w...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 4 ELISHA PROVIDES OIL FOR A WIDOW V1 A man’s widow went to speak to Elisha. The man had been a member of a group of *p...
THEN. — _And_; so in 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 4:35. DID I DESIRE (_ask_) A SON OF MY LORD? — Only the conclusion of her appeal is given. She says, Better to have had no son, than to have had one and los...
וַ תֹּ֕אמֶר הֲ שָׁאַ֥לְתִּי בֵ֖ן מֵ אֵ֣ת אֲדֹנִ֑י הֲ לֹ֣א אָמַ֔רְתִּי לֹ֥א תַשְׁלֶ֖ה אֹתִֽי׃...
ELISHA'S MIRACLES 2 Kings 4:1 WE are now in the full tide of Elisha's miracles, and as regards many of them we can do little more than illustrate the text as it stands. The record of them clearly co...
THE DEAD BOY RESTORED TO LIFE 2 Kings 4:25 There is fine illustration in this chapter of a noble reverence for goodness, of a good man's gratitude, and of the large reward that never fails those who...
The ministry of Elisha stands in many respects in vivid contrast with that of Elijah. There is a gentleness about it which inevitably reminds us of that of the Messiah Himself in His day. Instead of s...
_A son. Better had it been for me not to have become a mother, than to be so soon delivered of my child. (Menochius)_...
This is a most interesting part of the narrative. It is here rising to a great degree of earnestness. Her whole soul was in action, and the body participated, as is evident in catching hold of the pro...
However, the next chapter (2 Kings 3:1-27) brings us at once into earthly circumstances. "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of J...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 3 AND 4. In the following chapter we enter into the historical part of Elisha's ministry. Jehoram goes to war; and, although less wicked than his father, the...
THEN SHE SAID, DID I DESIRE A SON OF MY LORD?.... It was not at her request she had one, at least the first motion was not from her; the prophet first told her, and assured her she should have one, wi...
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? Ver. 28. _Did I desire a son of my lord?_] Was I too desirous, or unduly importunate? for if so, the loss of the child...
_She said, Did I desire a son of my lord?_ This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised; but was freely promised to me by thee in God's n...
1 Elisha multiplieth the widowes oyle. 8 Hee giueth a sonne to the good Shunammite. 18 Hee raiseth againe her dead sonne. 38 At Gilgal hee healeth the deadly pottage. 42 Hee satisfieth an hundred...
The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life...
THE WIDOW'S OIL (vv.1-7) The history of the Kings is again interrupted to make way for the ministry of Elisha. The bad example of the kings had brought about poverty in the land, and God provided g...
18-37 Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But how admirably does the prudent, pious mother,...
This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised, as Rachel was, GENESIS 30:1, compared with GENESIS 35:18; but was freely promised to me by...
2 Kings 4:28 said H559 (H8799) ask H7592 (H8804) son H1121 lord H113 say H559 (H8804) deceive H7952 (H8686) Did I desire - Genesis 30:1 Do not - 2 Kings 4:16...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN (2 KINGS 4:8). Shunem was near a well travelled road between Mount Carmel and Jezreel, one which Elisha would use frequently. In the process he became recognised by a...
2 Kings 4:8 What Elisha did for the Shunammite's son, the Church wishes to do for you. I. The Church is like Elisha because it touches you. It touches you through its one book, the Bible; it touches...
CONTENTS: Increase of the widow's oil. Woman of Shunom and her son restored to life. Noxious pottage healed. A hundred men fed. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, widow, Shunanmite woman, Gehazi, sons of proph...
2 Kings 4:1. _My two sons to be bondmen._ The law of Moses, as well as the laws of all gentile nations, allowed of this for six years. Exodus 21:7. Josephus, after others says, that she was the widow...
_And when the child was grown._ THE EMPTY HOME The Bible is the most perfectly natural and human book in the world. It deals not with philosophies and theories, but with real human life. The story o...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 4:22. THAT I MAY RUN TO THE MAN OF GOD—Not waiting to inform her husband of the reason of her mission, lest he should dissuade her, not doubting the miraculou...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 4:1 TYPICAL MIRACLES WROUGHT BY ELISHA. General _introduction_._ _The miracles of this chapter are all of them miracles of mercy. The first and last consist in the multiplying of f...
Now there was a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets who came to Elisha, saying, My husband is dead; and his creditors is come to take my two boys as slaves to pay for his debt. And...
2 Kings 4:16; Genesis 30:1...
She said — This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised, but was freely promised by thee in God's name, and from his special favour. Dece...