Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
2 Kings 4:40
There is death in the pot, i.e. some deadly thing; which they gathered from its excessive bitterness, by which possibly some of them might discern what it was.
There is death in the pot, i.e. some deadly thing; which they gathered from its excessive bitterness, by which possibly some of them might discern what it was.
Verse 40. THERE IS _DEATH IN THE POT._] As if they had said, "We have here a deadly mixture; if we eat of it, we shall all die....
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...
DEATH. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for that which causes death....
_they cried out_ The bitter taste shewed them that something was wrong, and their thoughts at once suggested that what they had eaten was poisonous. The fruit of the colocynth would produce sickness v...
II. MIRACLES ON BEHALF OF THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS 4:38-44 As the spiritual head of the sons of the prophets, Elisha frequently was called upon apparently to use his powers for the benefit of the grou...
_SO THEY POURED OUT FOR THE MEN TO EAT. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY WERE EATING OF THE POTTAGE, THAT THEY CRIED OUT, AND SAID, O THOU MAN OF GOD, THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT. AND THEY COULD NOT EAT 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 *...
(38-44) Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the famine....
THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT. — The bitter taste, and perhaps incipient effect of the pottage, made them think of poison....
וַ יִּֽצְק֥וּ לַ אֲנָשִׁ֖ים לֶ אֱכֹ֑ול וַ֠
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...
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] (u) death in the pot. And they could not...
_Death, poison, &c. Matthiole accounts this fruit poisonous._...
The poison in the food, spiritually explained, leads us to consider how cautious men should be, and especially the sons of the prophets, in consenting to anything but what the apostle calls wholesome...
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 POISONED POTTAGE_ ‘O thou man of God, there is death in the pot.’ 2 Kings 4:40 The use of a miracle, like that of an eclipse, is twofold. It may be studied as a special phenomenon in itself; o...
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 THEY POURED OUT FOR THE MEN TO EAT,.... When the pottage was boiled, they poured it out into dishes or basins, for the sons of the prophets to eat: AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY WERE EATING OF THE...
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] death in the pot. And they could not eat...
_And found a wild vine_ This is generally supposed to have been the _coloquintida_ plant, which has a leaf something like that of the vine, but is so very bitter, that some have called it “the gall of...
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...
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot! From the bitterness and the...
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...
2 Kings 4:40 served H3332 (H8799) men H582 eat H398 (H8800) eating H398 (H8800) stew H5138 out...
DEATH IN THE POT (2 KINGS 4:38). To turn this story into an example of the culinary art, with Elisha as the experienced chief cook is to misrepresent it. Whatever we may think it is quite clear that 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...
_There is death in the pot._ POISONS Nature grows poison as well as food. The sons of the prophets little knew the hurtful quality of the food that was being poured into the pot. In all things nature...
_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 4:40 DEATH IN THE POT. As with the salt thrown into the water at Jericho (2 Kings 2:21), the flour is a visible sign of the Lord’s power work
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 4:38. SONS OF THE PROPHETS WERE SITTING BEFORE HIM—This means, not that they lived in common with Elisha, but sat as scholars before him for teaching. SEETHE...
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 17:18; 2 Kings 1:11; 2 Kings 1:13; 2 Kings 1:9; 2 Kings 4:9;...
Death — That is, some deadly thing....