The country of the Philistines - the rich low grain-growing plain along the seacoast of Judah - was always a land of plenty compared with the highlands of Palestine. Moreover, if food failed there, it was easily imported by sea from the neighboring Egypt.
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. HAZAEL, KING OF SYRIA. This chapter is somewhat varied as to composition. It opens with a short story about Elisha (2 Kings 8:1), of which we may presuppose (_a_) that it is...
MAN OF GOD. See App-49....
_sojourned in the land of the Philistines_ As in Jacob's time, the patriarch with his family was sent into Egypt, an idolatrous land, because of the famine, so the pious Shunammite, for her life's sup...
C. PREDICTION OF FAMINE IN ISRAEL 8:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had revived, saying, Arise, you and your household go, and sojourn wherever you may sojourn; fo...
_AND THE WOMAN AROSE, AND DID AFTER THE SAYING OF THE MAN OF GOD: AND SHE WENT WITH HER HOUSEHOLD, AND SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES SEVEN YEARS._ Sojourned in the land of the Philistines...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE. ELISHA AND HAZAEL. REIGNS OF JEHORAM AND AHAZIAH OF JUDAH 1. Then spake Elisha] The occasion is not indicated, all the stories related of Elisha in this and the three prece...
THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES] THIS WAS a corn-growing district, near the still more productive country of Egypt....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 8 THE REPORT ABOUT ELISHA’S *MIRACLES V1 Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. ‘Go aw...
AFTER THE SAYING. — _According to the word._ IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES. — The lowlands of the coast were not so subject to droughts as the limestone highlands of Israel. (Comp. Genesis 12:10; Gen...
וַ תָּ֨קָם֙ הָֽ אִשָּׁ֔ה וַ תַּ֕עַשׂ כִּ
THE SHUNAMMITE AND HAZAEL 2 Kings 8:1 (_ Circa_ B.C. 886) "Our acts still follow with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are." -GEORGE ELIOT THE next anecdote of Elisha brings u...
THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE 2 Kings 8:1 Nothing happens in our life or in the world apart from the divine appointment or permission. Behind every event and incident there is a divine providence. The...
The influence of Elisha is incidentally seen in the converse of the king with Gehazi and the restoration of the lands of the Shunammite woman for the sake of the prophet. Elisha visited Damascus, wher...
It should seem that this famine soon succeeded the siege of the enemy, which the foregoing chapter relates. A fruitful land the Lord makes barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Psalms...
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 history of the woman [1], whose son Elisha had raised to life again, gives us a little picture of all God's dealings with Israel. During long years, as determined by Jehovah, Israel is deprived of...
AND THE WOMAN AROSE, AND DID AFTER THE SAYING OF THE MAN OF GOD,.... Whose words she had reason to believe; she having a son given to her according to his word, and this restored to life, when dead, t...
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. Ver. 2. _And sojourned in the land of the P...
_The woman arose, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines_ Which, though bordering upon Israel, was free from the famine: by which it appeared, that the special hand of God was in that calamity,...
1 The Shunammite, hauing left her countrey seuen yeeres, to auoide the forewarned famine, for Elishas miracle sake, hath her land restored by the king. 7 Hazael being sent with a present by Benhadad...
Elisha's Powerful Influence at Court...
And the woman, apparently a widow at that time, AROSE, AND DID AFTER THE SAYING OF THE MAN OF GOD; AND SHE WENT WITH HER HOUSEHOLD AND SOJOURNED IN THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES, which was near, and who...
THE SHUNAMITE AGAIN (vv.1-6) The Shunamite woman is typical of the godly remnant of Israel. She had learned the grace of God in giving new life (ch.4:17) and further in resurrection power (ch.4:32-3...
1-6 The kindness of the good Shunammite to Elisha, was rewarded by the care taken of her in famine. It is well to foresee an evil, and wisdom, when we foresee it, to hide ourselves if we lawfully may...
Either because that was near her lands and dwelling, which she thought she might have an eye to, when occasion required; or because there was more plenty than in Judah; or because she knew that her go...
2 Kings 8:2 woman H802 arose H6965 (H8799) did H6213 (H8799) saying H1697 man H376 God H430 went...
THE SHUNAMMITE, NOW A WIDOW, HAS HER LAND RESTORED TO HER BY THE KING OF ISRAEL (2 KINGS 8:1). The prophetic author has two purposes in this incident. Firstly to emphasis the miraculous powers of Eli...
CONTENTS: Famine predicted. Jehoram restores the Shunanmite land. Reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Elisha, Gehazi, Jehoram, Ben-hadad, Hazael, Ahaziah, Shu...
2 Kings 8:8. _Take a present._ See on 1 Kings 14:3. 2 Kings 8:10. _Thou mayest certainly recover._ Aye, say as you all do, both physicians and courtiers. Cry aloud, for Baal is a god. This was said in...
_Then spake Elisha unto the woman._ THE POTENT INFLUENCE OF A GOOD MAN I. His counsel is valuable, and gratefully acted upon. Here we see how the kindness shown by the Shunammite receives still furt...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:1 After the long narrative about the siege of Samaria (2 Kings 6:24), the Shunammite woman of 2 Kin
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 8:2 The LAND OF THE PHILISTINES was a natural place to seek refuge during a famine in Israel (compare Genesis 26:1). It was also close to Egypt, the bread
ELISHA IN DAMASCUS CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 8:1. THEN SPOKE ELISHA—The pluperfect tense: _Now Elisha had spoken_. This section dates prior to Chapter s 5 and 6, but is given here as...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 8:1 THE SEQUEL OF THE STORY OF THE SHUNAMMITE. THE KILLING OF BENHADAD BY HAZAEL; AND...
Now Elisha spake unto the woman, whose son had been restored to life, and he said, [You better get out of here because there's going to be a seven-year famine in this area] (2 Kings 8:1). And so she l...
1 Samuel 27:1; 1 Timothy 5:8; Judges 3:3...