Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
2 Kings 4:5
So she went from him, and, having borrowed vessels as she had been told, shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out, in a steady stream.
So she went from him, and, having borrowed vessels as she had been told, shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out, in a steady stream.
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
2 KINGS 4:1 TO 2 KINGS 6:23. STORIES ABOUT ELISHA AS A WONDER-WORKER. The miracles of Elisha fill a considerable part of the early Chapter s of 2 K. They are mostly beneficent in character, and this p...
WHO BROUGHT. they bringing. SHE POURED OUT. Elisha's fifth miracle. See note on 2 Kings 2:15....
_who_[R.V. THEY] _brought_the vessels _to her_ The R.V. marks that the Hebrew here begins a new clause with a personal pronoun. The widow's unquestioning obedience, in which her sons also imitated her...
I. MIRACLES ON BEHALF OF TWO FAITHFUL WOMEN 4:1-37 Elisha performed three miracles for two faithful female disciples. For a destitute widow he performed a miracle of multiplication of oil so that she...
_THEN HE SAID, GO, BORROW THEE VESSELS ABROAD OF ALL THY NEIGHBOURS, EVEN EMPTY VESSELS; BORROW NOT A FEW._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 *...
FROM HIM. — _Mç’ittô_, the correct form. (Comp. 2 Kings 3:11.) WHO BROUGHT... POURED OUT. — There should be a semicolon at “sons.” The rest is literally, _They were bringing to her, and she was pouri...
וַ תֵּ֨לֶךְ֙ מֵֽ אִתֹּ֔ו וַ תִּסְגֹּ֣ר הַ
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...
EVERY VESSEL FILLED 2 Kings 4:1 Elisha's ministry was not startling. It was redemptive and constructive. Widows came to him for help against their creditors; mothers appealed on behalf of their child...
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...
Do I not see in this representation how all the vessels of our poor nature may be unceasingly filled from the inexhaustible fullness of Jesus, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Borrow as we...
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...
SO SHE WENT FROM HIM,.... And did as he advised her, borrowed many empty vessels of her neighbours, having faith in what the prophet had said to her: AND SHUT THE DOOR UPON HER, AND UPON HER SONS; an...
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out. Ver. 5. _And shut the door, &c._] This her prompt and present obedience was a...
_Thou shalt shut the door upon thee, and upon thy sons_ That none might come in to disturb or interrupt her in what site was doing; that she and her sons might not seem proudly to boast of this miracu...
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 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...
1-7 Elisha's miracles were acts of real charity: Christ's were so; not only great wonders, but great favours to those for whom they were wrought. God magnifies his goodness with his power. Elisha rea...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 4:5 went H3212 (H8799) shut H5462 (H8799) door H1817 behind H1157 sons H1121 who H1992 brought...
SECTION 8. THE WONDER-WORKING MINISTRY OF ELISHA (2 KINGS 4:1 TO 2 KINGS 8:15) It will be noted that from this point on, until 2 Kings 8:15, no king of Israel is mentioned by name, even though, for ex...
YHWH PROVIDES FOR A POOR WOMAN AND HER TWO SONS WHO SEEK ELISHA'S HELP THROUGH THE MIRACLE OF MULTIPLYING THE OIL IN A VESSEL (2 KINGS 4:1). It will be seen that this miracle, and the one of raising t...
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...
_Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets._ THE WIDOW’S POT OF OIL If we are to believe the voice of tradition as expressed by Josephus, the subject of this touching s...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah. ⇐...
THE MIRACLES OF ELISHA CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 4:1. TWO SONS TO BE BONDMEN—The law entitled a creditor to the slavery or service of debtors till the year of Jubilee. 2 Kings 4:2. PO...
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...
1 Kings 17:15; 1 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 5:11; Hebrews 11:7; Hebrews 11:8