Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Kings 4:19
Verse 2 Kings 4:19. My head, any head.] Probably affected by the coup de soleil, or sun stroke, which might, in so young a subject, soon occasion death, especially in that hot country.
Verse 2 Kings 4:19. My head, any head.] Probably affected by the coup de soleil, or sun stroke, which might, in so young a subject, soon occasion death, especially in that hot country.
The child’s malady was a sunstroke. The inhabitants of Palestine suffered from this (Psalms 121:6; Isaiah 49:10; Judith 8:3)....
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...
_My head, my head_ The description points to an attack of sunstroke, where the first symptom is pain in the head. But the father thinks lightly of it, for such attacks are more frequent with older per...
C. RESURRECTION OF THE SHUNAMMITE'S Song of Solomon 4:18-37 TRANSLATION (18) And the child grew, and it came to pass one day that he went unto his father to the reapers. (19) And he said unto his fat...
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIS FATHER, MY HEAD, MY HEAD. AND HE SAID TO A LAD, CARRY HIM TO HIS MOTHER._ My head, my head! The cries of the boy, the part affected, and the season of the year, make it probable...
4:19 servant, (c-16) 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...
MY HEAD] He had perhaps sustained a sunstroke....
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 *...
MY HEAD, MY HEAD. — The boy had a sunstroke. It was the hot season of harvest, and his head was probably uncovered. A LAD. — _Rather, the young man._ The servant waiting on him....
וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל ־אָבִ֖יו רֹאשִׁ֣י ׀ רֹאשִׁ֑י...
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...
And he said unto his father, (m) My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. (m) His head was hurt badly and therefore he cried....
_Carry. This interpretation suits with the occasion, and is conformable to the Septuagint and Chaldean. (Menochius) --- Literally, "conduct him," but he was sick and little. (Haydock)_...
What an unexpected event was this? Who would have thought that a child unasked, and given at the instance of the prophet's prayer, should be thus soon recalled. Reader! do not fail to gather from it i...
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 UNTO HIS FATHER, MY HEAD, MY HEAD,.... After he had been some time with him, he complained of a pain in his head, which might be owing, as Abarbinel thinks, to the sun's beating upon it, b...
And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. Ver. 19. _And he said to his father, My head, my head._] The sunbeams in that hot season of harvest had b...
_He went out to his father to the reapers_ Either for pleasure, or with some message to him. _He said to his father, My head, my head!_ A more than common heat of the sun probably made him thus ill. T...
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 unto his father, My head, my head! He was evidently suffering from a sunstroke. AND HE, probably believing it to be a passing attack, SAID TO A LAD, CARRY HIM TO HIS MOTHER....
The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life...
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...
18-37 Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But how admirably does the prudent, pious mother,...
His head was grievously pained; which possibly came from the heat of the harvest season, to which he was exposed in the field....
2 Kings 4:19 said H559 (H8799) father H1 head H7218 head H7218 said H559 (H8799) servant H5288 Carry...
3). WHEN THE SON GROWS TO BOYHOOD HE DIES SUDDENLY, AND ON THE WOMAN APPEALING TO ELISHA, HE RAISES HER SON FROM THE DEAD (2 KINGS 4:18). One thing worse than not having a son and heir, especially in...
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...
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 when the child was grown._ THE EMPTY HOME The Bible is the most perfectly natural and human book in the world. It deals not with philosophies and theories, but with real human life. The story o...
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 4:22. THAT I MAY RUN TO THE MAN OF GOD—Not waiting to inform her husband of the reason of her mission, lest he should dissuade her, not doubting the miraculou...
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...
Jeremiah 4:19; Job 14:1; Job 14:2...