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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
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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...
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DOOR. entrance....
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_And he said. Call her_ It would seem from these words that the woman
had gone away at once after saying she had no wants which needed a
petition to the king or the captain of the host.
_she stood in...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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 *...
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CALL HER. — The Shunammite is now summoned into the presence of the
prophet himself.
SHE STOOD. — Or, _took her stand._ Modesty, or reverence for Elisha,
prevented her from going farther....
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וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר קְרָא ־לָ֑הּ וַ יִּקְרָא
־לָ֔הּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In order to have a clear conception of the great earnestness
manifested among all the Israelites for children, it should be
remembered that this was with an eye to the coming Messiah. That
promised se...
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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...
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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...
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AND HE SAID, CALL HER,.... Perhaps finding an impulse on his own mind,
from the Spirit of God, that this was the thing to be done for her:
AND WHEN HE HAD CALLED HER, SHE STOOD IN THE DOOR; of his ch...
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And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the
door.
Ver. 15. _Call her._] See on 2 Kings 4:12 .
_ She stood in the door._] By a commendable modesty. So Genesis 18:10
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_And he said, What then is to be done for her?_ The above answer being
returned to his master by Gehazi, Elisha asked him what he thought
might be most welcome to her, as if he had said, Hast thou obs...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Out of reverence, humility, and modesty, waiting till he came to her,
or called her further in to him....
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2 Kings 4:15 said H559 (H8799) Call H7121 (H8798) called H7121 (H8799)
stood H5975 (H8799) doo
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind
the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah.
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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...
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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...
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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...