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Verse 2 Kings 4:16. _THOU SHALT EMBRACE A SON._] This _promise_, and
the _circumstances_ of the parties, are not very dissimilar to that
relative to the birth of Isaac, and those of Abraham and Sarah....
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DO NOT LIE - Compare a similar incredulity in Genesis 17:17; Genesis
18:12; Luke 1:20. The expression, “do not lie,” which is harsh to
us, accords with the plain, straightforward simplicity of ancient...
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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
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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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_according to the time of life_ R.V. WHEN THE TIME COMETH ROUND. The
literal sense of the verb is explained on the margin of R.V. = liveth,
or reviveth. The phrase is the same which is used Genesis 18...
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B. PREDICTIONS REGARDING THE SHUNAMMITE 4:8-17
TRANSLATION
(8) And it came to pass one day that Elisha passed over unto Shunem,
and there was a great lady who constrained him to eat bread. And it
cam...
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_AND HE SAID, WHAT THEN IS TO BE DONE FOR HER? AND GEHAZI ANSWERED,
VERILY SHE HATH NO CHILD, AND HER HUSBAND IS OLD._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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4:16 come, (e-12) Or 'at [this] time of the year' [lit. 'life'], as
ver. 17; Genesis 18:14 ....
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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...
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ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE] RV 'when the time cometh round,' i.e.
in the spring of the following year....
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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 *...
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ABOUT THIS SEASON. — _At this set time_.
ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE. — Rather, _at the reviving time —
i.e._, next spring; or, _when the time revives_ — _i.e._, in the
following year: a phrase occu...
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וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר לַ † מֹּועֵ֤ד הַ זֶּה֙...
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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...
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ENTERTAINING A PROPHET
2 Kings 4:8
The real man needs a very small supply of outward comfort, because his
life is hid in God. It does not consist in the abundance of things
that he possesses, but in...
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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...
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Womb. Hebrew, "At this season, according to the time of life,
(Haydock; or of a woman with child, Menochius) thou shalt embrace a
son" in thy arms. (Haydock) See Genesis xviii. 10. (Calmet) --- If is...
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In order to have a clear conception of the great earnestness
manifested among all the Israelites for children, it should be
remembered that this was with an eye to the coming Messiah. That
promised se...
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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...
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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...
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AND HE SAID, ABOUT THIS SEASON,.... In the next year:
ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE; the usual time women go with child:
THOU SHALT EMBRACE A SON; in thine arms, that shall be born of thee,
which sh...
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And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou
shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou] man of God, do
not lie unto thine handmaid.
Ver. 16. _About this season,_]...
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_About this season, according to the time of life_ About this time
next year; see on Genesis 18:10; _thou shall embrace a son_ She had
received this prophet _in the name of a prophet_, and now she
rec...
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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...
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And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, in the
natural course of events, THOU SHALT EMBRACE A SON. AND SHE, almost
overwhelmed by the prospect which exceeded her fondest hopes,...
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ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE...
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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...
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SEASON:
_ Heb._ set time...
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8-17 Elisha was well thought of by the king of Israel for his late
services; a good man can take as much pleasure in serving others, as
in raising himself. But the Shunammite needed not any good offi...
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ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE; of which phrase SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS
18:10". DO NOT LIE UNTO THINE HANDMAID; do not delude me with vain
hopes. She could not believe it for joy, and supposed the prophe...
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2). ELISHA SEEKS TO DEMONSTRATE HIS GRATITUDE AND PROMISES HER A SON
EVEN THOUGH HER HUSBAND IS OLD, AND A SON IS DULY BORN (2 KINGS 4:11).
As we discover again later in the case of Naaman Elisha had...
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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 w...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem._
HOSPITALITY
In these verses there are two very interesting subjects, and of a
practical character.
I. Hospitality rightfully employed. The objec...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind
the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah.
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 4:8. SHUNEM, in the plain of Esdraelon, at the base of Little
Hermon, now _Sulam_.
2 Kings 4:10. CHAMBER ON THE WALL—Probably, as in 2 Samuel 18:33, a
chamber...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 18:9; 2 Kings 2:19; 2 Kings 4:28; 2 Kings 5:10
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Do not lie — Do not delude me with vain hopes. She could not believe
it for joy....