George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Kings 4:43
Men. The disciples of Christ found the like difficulty, John vi. 9. (Menochius) --- God multiplied the provisions for these 100 men, (Calmet) living in the community at Galgal. (Haydock)
Men. The disciples of Christ found the like difficulty, John vi. 9. (Menochius) --- God multiplied the provisions for these 100 men, (Calmet) living in the community at Galgal. (Haydock)
Verse 2 Kings 4:43. _THUS SAITH THE LORD, THEY SHALL EAT, AND SHALL LEAVE_ THEREOF.] It was God, not the prophet, who fed _one hundred_ men with these _twenty_ loaves, c. This is something like our L...
This miracle was a faint foreshadowing of our Lord’s far more marvelous feeding of thousands with even scantier materials. The resemblance is not only in the broad fact, but in various minute particul...
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
TWO MINOR MIRACLES OF ELISHA. The death (poison) in the pot healed and the feeding of a hundred prophets. The bread of the firstfruits (2 Kings 4:42) was by the Law the property of the priests (Number...
SERVITOR. attendant. Old English. one who serves. AN HUNDRED MEN. Elisha's ninth miracle. See note on 2 Kings 2:15. One of three (App-10) miracles of feeding multitudes. Compare Matthew 14:20; Matthe...
_And his servitor_[R.V. SERVANT] _said_ The word is not the usual one for -servant" which has occurred above in this chapter; but it is rendered elsewhere by -minister" or -servant" (see Exodus 24:13;...
B. MULTIPLICATION OF THE LOAVES 4:42-44 TRANSLATION (42) And a man came from Baal-shalisha, and he brought to the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and grain in his sack. A...
_AND HIS SERVITOR SAID, WHAT, SHOULD I SET THIS BEFORE AN HUNDRED MEN? HE SAID AGAIN, GIVE THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY MAY EAT: FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THEY SHALL EAT, AND SHALL LEAVE THEREOF._ They shall...
WHAT, SHOULD.. MEN?] cp. the like doubt raised by the disciples of our Lord (John 6:9), and the similar, but even more impressive, sequel....
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 *...
(38-44) Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the famine....
SERVITOR. — _Minister, or attendant._ WHAT, SHOULD I SET THIS BEFORE AN HUNDRED MEN? — Or, _How am I to set?_ &c. (Comp. Matthew 14:33.) HE SAID AGAIN. — _And he said._ THEY SHALL EAT, AND SHALL LE...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ מְשָׁ֣רְתֹ֔ו מָ֚ה אֶתֵּ֣ן זֶ֔ה ל
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...
“WHO GIVETH FOOD TO ALL FLESH” 2 Kings 4:38 This miracle, it has been justly remarked, is a faint foreshadowing of our Lord's marvelous feeding of thousands with even scantier materials. As Elijah wa...
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...
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and (x) shall leave [thereof]. (x) It...
I cannot help remarking again, if peradventure I have mentioned it before, that among the precious things of the sacred scriptures of the Old Testament, those are not the least, which represent the Ho...
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...
AND HIS SERVITOR SAID,.... His servant Gehazi very probably: WHAT, SHOULD I SET THIS BEFORE ONE HUNDRED MEN? for so many, it seems, the sons of the prophets were in this place; and these loaves being...
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof]. Ver. 43. _...
_What! should I set this before a hundred men?_ Just as the apostles said to the Lord Jesus, when he intended to feed a far greater number with less food. _He said again, Give unto the people_, &c. Do...
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...
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? The quantity was not large enough to feed such a great number of people. HE SAID AGAIN, GIVE THE PEOPLE THAT THEY MAY EAT; FOR THU...
AMONG TTHE SONS OF THE PROPHETS...
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...
38-44 There was a famine of bread, but not of hearing the word of God, for Elisha had the sons of the prophets sitting before him, to hear his wisdom. Elisha made hurtful food to become safe and whol...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 4:43 servant H8334 (H8764) said H559 (H8799) set H5414 (H8799) before H6440 hundred H3967 men...
ELISHA FEEDS A ‘MULTITUDE' WITH A RELATIVELY FEW LOAVES OF BREAD (2 KINGS 4:42). While the likeness to the account of the feeding of many thousands by Jesus with five loaves and two fish is limited to...
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 there came a man from Baal-shalisha._ THE FARMER’S GIFT I. A lesson on providence. This dearth came in consequence of sin. The proud and wicked people would never yield, except they were obliged...
_And Elisha came again to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the land._ MINISTRIES TO MAN, GOOD AND BAD Elisha had returned to Gilgal, the seat of a school of the prophets; he had come thither once m...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah. ⇐...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:42 BREAD OF THE FIRSTFRUITS. The second miracle of the chapter also concerns provision for people who depend on Elisha. A limited amount of food is multiplied (compare vv....
_HOMILETICS OF 2 Kings 4:42_ THE SUPERABUNDANT GOODNESS OF GOD I. PROVIDES FOR THE DAILY WANTS OF MAN. “Give unto the people that they may eat” (2 Kings 4:42). How enormous are the thought and toil i...
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 4:12; John 6:11; John 6:9; Luke 9:13; Luke 9:17;...