George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Kings 4:34
Warm. Arabic adds, "by his breath," as when God breathed a soul into Adam. (Theodoret, q. 18.) --- Some Greek interpreters have, "he breathed upon him," &c.
Warm. Arabic adds, "by his breath," as when God breathed a soul into Adam. (Theodoret, q. 18.) --- Some Greek interpreters have, "he breathed upon him," &c.
Verse 34. _LAY UPON THE CHILD_] Endeavoured to convey a portion of his own natural warmth to the body of the child; and probably endeavoured, by blowing into the child's mouth, to inflate the lungs,...
BE STRETCHED HIMSELF - Or, “prostrated himself.” The word is a different one from that used of Elijah, and expresses closer contact with the body. Warmth may have been actually communicated from the l...
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...
_And he went up_ The verb is used in 2 Kings 1:4, of getting upon a bed. For some old beds it is very appropriate, for formerly they were much higher from the ground than is now the fashion. _and lay...
LAY UPON THE CHILD, &C.— See what we have said on 1 Kings 17:21. REFLECTIONS.—How precarious is every sublunary blessing! how little dependance to be placed upon the comforts of a perishing world! We...
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 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...
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 *...
HE WENT UP. — Upon the bed (2 Kings 1:6). AND LAY UPON THE CHILD. — Comp. 1 Kings 17:21. What is hinted at there is described here (_Thenius_). STRETCHED HIMSELF UPON THE CHILD. — _Bowed himself_. So...
וַ יַּ֜עַל וַ יִּשְׁכַּ֣ב עַל ־הַ יֶּ֗לֶד
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...
THE DEAD BOY RESTORED TO LIFE 2 Kings 4:25 There is fine illustration in this chapter of a noble reverence for goodness, of a good man's gratitude, and of the large reward that never fails those who...
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 went up, and (q) 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 ch...
While I desire the Reader to remark with me the graciousness of God, in thus teaching the early church by such miracles the blessed doctrines of the resurrection; and more particularly, as all of them...
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 WENT UP,.... To the bed, which was on an ascent in the chamber, 2 Kings 1:4 and lay upon the child; as Elijah did on the widow's son of Zarephath, 1 Kings 17:21 AND PUT HIS MOUTH UPON HIS MOUT...
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...
_He shut the door upon them twain_ Upon himself and the dead child, that he might pray to God without interruption, and might more freely use those means which he thought fit. _And put his mouth_, &c....
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 went up, namely, on the bed, AND LAY UPON THE CHILD, AND PUT HIS MOUTH UPON HIS MOUTH, AND HIS EYES UPON HIS EYES, AND HIS HANDS UPON HIS HANDS, to impart warmth to the corpse; AND HE STRETCHED...
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,...
HE WENT UP, AND LAY UPON THE CHILD; and although some ceremonial uncleanness might seem to be contracted by the touch of this dead body, yet that was justly to give place to a moral duty, and to an ac...
2 Kings 4:34 up H5927 (H8799) lay H7901 (H8799) child H3206 put H7760 (H8799) mouth H6310 mouth...
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 the child sneezed seven times._ THE SEVEN SNEEZES The child was dead. Although he had been the special gift of Divine promise and was therefore doubly prized by his parents, yet the little lad w...
_He went therefore, and shut the door upon them twain._ THE STAFF AND THE SACRIFICE The story of the Shunammite and her son is one of the most charming idyls in the Bible. It abounds in the most beau...
_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. ⇐...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:34 Elisha’s actions vividly picture God restoring breath to the child (PUTTING HIS MOUTH ON HIS MOUTH), as well as sight (HIS EYES) and strength (HIS HANDS).
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...
1 Kings 17:21; Acts 20:10...
And put — One part upon another successively; for the disproportion of the bodies would not permit it to be done together. Grew warm — Not by any external heat, which could not be transmitted to the c...