2Ki 4 | TSK | STEP | Elisha multiplies the widow's oil. He obtains a son for the good Shunammite. He restores her son when dead. At Gilgal he heals the deadly pottage. He satisfies an hundred men with twenty loaves. A.M. 3110. B.C. 894. sons. thy servant did fear. the creditor.

Shunem.This city was situated in the tribe of Issachar, five miles south from mount Tabor, according to Eusebius; and is probably the place which he calls Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the neighbourhood of Samaria or Sebaste.

12; Jos 19:18; 1Sa 28:4; 1Ki 1:3

a great woman.

2Sa 19:32; Job 1:3; 32:9; Lu 1:15

she constrained him. Heb. she laid hold on him.

Ge 19:3; Jud 19:20; Pr 7:21; Lu 14:23; 24:29; Ac 16:15

she said.

Pr 31:10,11; 1Pe 3:1

this is.

Mt 5:16; 1Th 2:10; Tit 1:8; 2Pe 1:21; 3:2

man of God.

De 33:1; 1Ki 13:1; 17:18,24; 1Ti 6:11

Let us.

Isa 32:8; Mt 10:41,42; 25:40; Mr 9:41; Lu 8:3; Ro 12:13; Heb 10:24

Heb 13:2; 1Pe 4:9,10

a little chamber.An {âleeyah,} or {oleäh,} as the Arabs call it; a small back house annexed to the principal dwelling, in which the prophet could live in a great privacy as in his own house, and to which he could retire at pleasure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions. See the notes on Jud 3:20.

1Ki 17:19

Gehazi.

29-31; 5:20-27; 8:4,5

servant.

3:11; 1Ki 18:43; 19:3; Ac 13:5

thou hast.

Mt 10:40-42; Lu 9:3-5; Ro 16:2,6; Php 4:18,19; 1Th 5:12,13

2Ti 1:16-18; Heb 6:10

to the king.

3:15-18; 8:3-6; Ge 14:24; 2Sa 19:32-38

to the captain.

9:5; 2Sa 19:13; 1Ki 2:32

I dwell.

1Ti 6:6-8; Heb 13:5

among mine.

8:1; Ru 1:1-4; Ps 37:3

she hath no child.

Ge 15:2,3; 17:17; 18:10-14; 25:21; 30:1; Jud 13:2; 1Sa 1:2,8; Lu 1:7

About this.

Ge 17:21; 18:10,14

season. Heb. set time. thou shalt.

Ge 17:16,17; Lu 1:13,30,31

my lord.

2:19

do not lie.

28; 5:10,11; Ge 18:12-15; 1Ki 17:18; 18:9; Ps 116:11; Lu 1:18-20

Ge 21:1; 1Sa 1:19,20; Ps 113:9; Lu 1:24,25,36; Heb 11:11

to the reapers.

Ru 2:4

My head.From this peculiar exclamation, and the season of the year, it is probable he was affected by the {coup de soleil,} or stroke of the sun, which is by no means uncommon in hot climates, and often proves fatal.

Job 14:1,2; Jer 4:19

his mother.

Isa 49:15; 66:13; Lu 7:12

and then died.

Ge 22:2; 37:3,5; 1Ki 17:17; Eze 24:16-18; Lu 2:35; Joh 11:3,5,14

the bed.

10; 1Ki 17:19

I may run.

24,26; Joh 11:3; Ac 9:38

new moon.

Nu 10:10; 28:11; 1Ch 23:31; Isa 1:13-15

well. Heb. peace.

Then she.

Ex 4:20; 1Sa 25:20; 1Ki 13:13,23

an ass.These animals were not anciently, as now, used only by the lower classes, but were in general use among the noble and chief personages of the East, and it was not unusual for even the husband to walk by the side of his wife while thus riding; the driver, as was the custom, following. The Shunammite, when she went to the prophet, did not desire so much attendance; but only requested her husband to send her an ass and its driver.

Drive.

1Sa 25:19

slack not thy riding for me. Heb. restrain not for me toride.

to mount.

2:25; 1Ki 18:19,42; Isa 35:2

Run now.

Zec 2:4

Is it well with thee.

Ge 29:6; 37:14; 1Sa 17:18; Mt 10:12,13; Ac 15:36

It is well.

23; Le 10:3; 1Sa 3:18; Job 1:21,22; Ps 39:9

him by the feet. Heb. by his feet.

Mt 28:9; Lu 7:38

thrust.

Mt 15:23; 20:31; Mr 10:13; Joh 4:27; 12:4-6

Let her alone.

Mr 14:6; Joh 12:7

vexed. Heb. bitter.

1Sa 1:10; Job 10:1; Pr 14:10; 18:14

hid it from me.

6:12; Ge 18:17; 2Sa 7:3; Am 3:7; Joh 15:15

Did I desire.

Ge 30:1

Do not.

Gird up thy loins.

9:1; 1Ki 18:46; Eph 6:14; 1Pe 1:13

take my.

2:14; Ex 4:17

salute him not.

Lu 10:4

lay my staff.

2:8,14; Ex 7:19,20; 14:16; Jos 6:4,5; Ac 3:16; 19:12

As the Lord.

2:2,4

I will not.

Ex 33:12-16; Ru 1:16-18

neither voice.

1Sa 14:37; 28:6; Eze 14:3; Mt 17:16-21; Mr 9:19-29; Ac 19:13-17

hearing. Heb. attention.

1Ki 18:26,29

not awaked.

Job 14:12; Da 12:2; Mr 5:39; Joh 11:11,43,44; Eph 5:14

the child.

1Ki 17:17; Lu 8:52,53; Joh 11:17

shut the door.

4; Mt 6:6

prayed.

5:11; 6:17,18,20; 1Ki 17:20,21; 18:26,27; Joh 11:41,42; Ac 9:40

Jas 5:13-18

1Ki 17:21; Ac 20:10

to and fro. Heb. once hither and once thither. and thechild opened.

8:1,5; 13:21; 1Ki 17:22; Lu 7:14,15; 8:55; Joh 11:43,44; Ac 9:40

Call this Shunammite.

Take up.

1Ki 17:23; Lu 7:15; Heb 11:35

fell at his feet.

27; 2:15; 1Ki 17:24

Elisha.

2:1; 1Sa 7:16,17; Ac 10:38; 15:36

a dearth.

8:1; Le 26:26; De 28:22-24,38-40; 2Sa 21:1; Jer 14:1-6; Eze 14:13

Lu 4:25

the sons.

2:3; 1Sa 19:20

were sitting.

Pr 8:34; Lu 2:46; 8:35,38; 10:39; Ac 22:3

Set on the great pot.

Mr 6:37; 8:2-6; Lu 9:13; Joh 21:5,9

a wild vine.

Isa 5:4; Jer 2:21; Mt 15:13; Heb 12:15

wild gourds.The word {pakküôth,} from {peka,} in Chaldee, to burst, and in Syriac, to crack, thunder, is generally supposed to be the fruits of the coloquintida, or colocynth; whose leaves are large, placed alternately, very much like those of the vine, whence it might be called a wild vine: the flowers are white, and the fruit of the gourd kind, of the size of a large apple, and when ripe, of a yellow colour, and a pleasant and inviting appearance. It ranks among vegetable poisons, as all intense bitters do; but, judiciously employed, it is of considerable use in medicine. It is said that the fruit, when ripe, is so full of wind that it bursts, and throws its liquor and seeds to a great distance: and if touched, before it breaks of itself, it flies open with an explosion, and discharges its foetid contents in the face of him who touched it.

O thou.

9; 1:9,11,13; De 33:1; 1Ki 17:18

death.

Ex 10:17; 15:23; Mr 16:18

he cast.

2:21; 5:10; 6:6; Ex 15:25; Joh 9:6; 1Co 1:25

there.

Ac 28:5

harm. Heb. evil thing.

Baal-shalisha.

1Sa 9:4,7

bread.

38; Ex 23:16; De 12:6; 26:2-10; 1Sa 9:7; 2Ch 11:13,14; Pr 3:9,10

1Co 9:11; Ga 6:6

of barley.

7:1,16-18; De 8:8; 32:14; Joh 6:9,13

the husk thereof. or, his scrip, or garment.Note: Parched corn, or corn to be parched; full ears before they are ripe, parched on the fire: a very frequent food in the East. The loaves were probably extremely small, as their loaves of bread still are in eastern countries. But small as this may appear, it would be a considerable present in the time of famine; though very inadequate to the number of persons. Baal-shalisha, of which the person who made this seasonable present was an inhabitant, was situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, fifteen miles north of Diospolis, or Lydda.

his servitor.

What.

Mt 14:16,17; 15:33,34; Mr 6:37-39; 8:4; Lu 9:13; Joh 6:9

They shall eat.

Mt 14:20; 15:37; 16:8-10; Mr 6:42,43; 8:20; Lu 9:17; Joh 6:11-13