Gehazi his servant. — First mentioned here. His name means “valley of vision,” and is perhaps derived from his native place, which may have got its name from being a haunt of prophets.
His servant. — His young man (Genesis 22:3).
She stood before him — i.e., before Gehazi. The sentence, “And when he had called her, she stood before him,” is an anticipation of the result, and might be placed within a parenthesis.
Verse 2 Kings 4:12. _GEHAZI HIS SERVANT_] This is the first time we hear of this very indifferent character....
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
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...
SERVANT. young man....
_to Gehazi his servant_ Gehazi is mentioned in this narrative, in ch. 2 Kings 5:20 and the following verses, and again in ch. 2 Kings 8:4. He probably stood in the same position to Elisha which the la...
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...
_AND IT FELL ON A DAY, THAT HE CAME THITHER, AND HE TURNED INTO THE CHAMBER, AND LAY THERE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
4:12 servant, (c-7) Heb. 'young man,' as ver. 19, and often....
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 *...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל ־גֵּחֲזִ֣י נַעֲרֹ֔ו קְרָ֖א 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...
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...
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...
There is a nobleness of soul in the woman, in thus declining court favor. The prophet's interest was more with God than with the king. It is as if she had said, Speak for me not to man, but to God. Re...
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 HE SAID TO GEHAZI HIS SERVANT,.... Who attended him wherever he went, and ministered to him, and lay very probably in the same chamber with him; he might be one of the sons of the prophets: CALL...
And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. Ver. 12. _Call this Shunammite._] Gehazi it seemeth was sent to call her, but withal to acqu...
_She stood before him_ The narrative seems to be a little perplexed, but may be thus conceived: it is in this verse recorded in the general, that the prophet sent Gehazi to call her, and that she came...
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 he said to Gehazi, his servant, of whom nothing else is known, CALL THIS SHUNAMMITE. AND WHEN HE HAD CALLED HER, SHE STOOD BEFORE HIM, that is, Gehazi, who thereupon communicated to her the rest o...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE...
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...
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...
i.e. Before the prophet, in the door of his chamber, as it is said, 2 KINGS 4:15. The relation seems to be a little perplexed, but may be thus conceived. It is in this verse recorded, in the general,...
2 Kings 4:12 said H559 (H8799) Gehazi H1522 servant H5288 Call H7121 (H8798) Shunammite H7767 called H7121 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah. ⇐...
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...
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 18:43; 1 Kings 19:3; 2 Kings 3:11; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 5:
She stood — The relation seems to be a little perplexed, but may be thus conceived. It is in this verse recorded in the general, that the prophet sent Gehazi to call her, and that she came to him upon...