_NOW THERE CRIED A CERTAIN WOMAN OF THE WIVES OF THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS UNTO ELISHA, SAYING, THY SERVANT MY HUSBAND IS DEAD; AND THOU KNOWEST THAT THY SERVANT DID FEAR THE LORD: AND THE CREDITOR IS COME TO TAKE UNTO HIM MY TWO SONS TO BE BONDMEN._ There cried a certain woman of the wives of the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELISHA SAID UNTO HER, WHAT SHALL I DO FOR THEE? TELL ME, WHAT HAST THOU IN THE HOUSE? AND SHE SAID, THINE HANDMAID HATH NOT ANY THING IN THE HOUSE, SAVE A POT OF OIL._ A POT - or cruet of oil. This comprising her whole stock of domestic utensils, he directs her to borrow empty vessels not a few... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HE SAID, GO, BORROW THEE VESSELS ABROAD OF ALL THY NEIGHBOURS, EVEN EMPTY VESSELS; BORROW NOT A FEW._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE VESSELS WERE FULL, THAT SHE SAID UNTO HER SON, BRING ME YET A VESSEL. AND HE SAID UNTO HER, THERE IS NOT A VESSEL MORE. AND THE OIL STAYED._ The oil stayed - i:e., ceased to multiply; the benevolent object for which the miracle had been performed having been accomplis... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SHE CAME AND TOLD THE MAN OF GOD. AND HE SAID, GO, SELL THE OIL, AND PAY THY DEBT, AND LIVE THOU AND THY CHILDREN OF THE REST._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT FELL ON A DAY, THAT ELISHA PASSED TO SHUNEM, WHERE WAS A GREAT WOMAN; AND SHE CONSTRAINED HIM TO EAT BREAD. AND SO IT WAS, THAT AS OFT AS HE PASSED BY, HE TURNED IN THITHER TO EAT BREAD._ Elisha passed to Shunem - now Sulam, in the plain of Esdraelon at the southwestern base of Little Hemon... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID UNTO HER HUSBAND, BEHOLD NOW, I PERCEIVE THAT THIS IS AN HOLY MAN OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH BY US CONTINUALLY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET US MAKE A LITTLE CHAMBER, I PRAY THEE, ON THE WALL; AND LET US SET FOR HIM THERE A BED, AND A TABLE, AND A STOOL, AND A CANDLESTICK: AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN HE COMETH TO US, THAT HE SHALL TURN IN THITHER._ Let us make a little chamber - not build, but prepare it. She meant a room in the oleah, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, SAY NOW UNTO HER, BEHOLD, THOU HAST BEEN CAREFUL FOR US WITH ALL THIS CARE; WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR THEE? WOULDEST THOU BE SPOKEN FOR TO THE KING, OR TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST? AND SHE ANSWERED, I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN PEOPLE._ What is to be done for thee? Wishing to testify h... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 that he had been overtaken by a stroke of the sun. Pain, stupor, and inflammatory fever, are the sy... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HAD TAKEN HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM TO HIS MOTHER, HE SAT ON HER KNEES TILL NOON, AND THEN DIED._ HE SAT ON HER KNEES UNTIL NOON, х_ WAYEESHEB_ (H3427), sat; but the Septuagint seems to have read wayasheen; for it renders kai ekoimeethee epi ton gonatoon, and he slept on her knees].... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE WENT UP, AND LAID HIM ON THE BED OF THE MAN OF GOD, AND SHUT THE DOOR UPON HIM, AND WENT OUT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE CALLED UNTO HER HUSBAND, AND SAID, SEND ME, I PRAY THEE, ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND ONE OF THE ASSES, THAT I MAY RUN TO THE MAN OF GOD, AND COME AGAIN._ She called unto her husband. Her heroic concealment of the death from her husband is not the least interest feature of the story.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, WHEREFORE WILT THOU GO TO HIM TO DAY? IT IS NEITHER NEW MOON, NOR SABBATH. AND SHE SAID, IT SHALL BE WELL._ Wherefore will thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath. It appears from the text that it was usual at this time to visit the prophets, and probably to make them... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SHE SADDLED AN ASS, AND SAID TO HER SERVANT, DRIVE, AND GO FORWARD; SLACK NOT THY RIDING FOR ME, EXCEPT I BID THEE._ SAID TO HER SERVANT, DRIVE, AND GO FORWARD. It is usual for women to ride on asses, accompanied by a servant, who walks behind, and the drives beast with his stick, goading the... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SHE WENT AND CAME UNTO THE MAN OF GOD TO MOUNT CARMEL. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE MAN OF GOD SAW HER AFAR OFF, THAT HE SAID TO GEHAZI HIS SERVANT, BEHOLD, YONDER IS THAT SHUNAMMITE:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_RUN NOW, I PRAY THEE, TO MEET HER, AND SAY UNTO HER, IS IT WELL WITH THEE? IS IT WELL WITH THY HUSBAND? IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD? AND SHE ANSWERED, IT IS WELL._ And she answered, It is well. Her answer was purposely brief and vague to Gehazi, for she reserved a full disclosure of her loss for the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SHE CAME TO THE MAN OF GOD TO THE HILL, SHE CAUGHT HIM BY THE FEET: BUT GEHAZI CAME NEAR TO THRUST HER AWAY. AND THE MAN OF GOD SAID, LET HER ALONE; FOR HER SOUL IS VEXED WITHIN HER: AND THE LORD HATH HID IT FROM ME, AND HATH NOT TOLD ME._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HE SAID TO GEHAZI, GIRD UP THY LOINS, AND TAKE MY STAFF IN THINE HAND, AND GO THY WAY: IF THOU MEET ANY MAN, SALUTE HIM NOT; AND IF ANY SALUTE THEE, ANSWER HIM NOT AGAIN: AND LAY MY STAFF UPON THE FACE OF THE CHILD._ Take my staff ... and lay ... upon the face of the child. The staff was prob... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MOTHER OF THE CHILD SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE. AND HE AROSE, AND FOLLOWED HER._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT UP, AND LAY UPON THE CHILD, AND PUT HIS MOUTH UPON HIS MOUTH, AND HIS EYES UPON HIS EYES, AND HIS HANDS UPON HIS HANDS: AND HE STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD; AND THE FLESH OF THE CHILD WAXED WARM._ Lay upon the child ... - (see the notes at 1 Kings 17:21; Acts 20:10). Although this... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HE RETURNED, AND WALKED IN THE HOUSE TO AND FRO; AND WENT UP, AND STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON HIM: AND THE CHILD SNEEZED SEVEN TIMES, AND THE CHILD OPENED HIS EYES._ The child sneezed seven times, and ... opened his eyes. These were the first acts of restored respiration, and they are described as... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CALLED GEHAZI, AND SAID, CALL THIS SHUNAMMITE. SO HE CALLED HER. AND WHEN SHE WAS COME IN UNTO HIM, HE SAID, TAKE UP THY SON._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELISHA CAME AGAIN TO GILGAL: AND THERE WAS A DEARTH IN THE LAND; AND THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS WERE SITTING BEFORE HIM: AND HE SAID UNTO HIS SERVANT, SET ON THE GREAT POT, AND SEETHE POTTAGE FOR THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS._ There was a dearth in the land ... (see the notes at 2 Kings 8:1 .) the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ONE WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD TO GATHER HERBS, AND FOUND A WILD VINE, AND GATHERED THEREOF WILD GOURDS HIS LAP FULL, AND CAME AND SHRED THEM INTO THE POT OF POTTAGE: FOR THEY KNEW THEM NOT._ Went out into the field to gather herbs. Wild herbs are very extensively used by people in the East, even... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THEY POURED OUT FOR THE MEN TO EAT. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THEY WERE EATING OF THE POTTAGE, THAT THEY CRIED OUT, AND SAID, O THOU MAN OF GOD, THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT. AND THEY COULD NOT EAT THEREOF._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE CAME A MAN FROM BAALSHALISHA, AND BROUGHT THE MAN OF GOD BREAD OF THE FIRSTFRUITS, TWENTY LOAVES OF BARLEY, AND FULL EARS OF CORN IN THE HUSK THEREOF. AND HE SAID, GIVE UNTO THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY MAY EAT._ Brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves. Loaves in the Eas... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS SERVITOR SAID, WHAT, SHOULD I SET THIS BEFORE AN HUNDRED MEN? HE SAID AGAIN, GIVE THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY MAY EAT: FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, THEY SHALL EAT, AND SHALL LEAVE THEREOF._ They shall eat, and shall leave thereof. This was not a miracle of Elisha, but only a prediction of one by the... [ Continue Reading ]