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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

2 Kings 4:29

Gird up thy loins; tie up thy long garments about thy loins for expedition. See 1 Kings 18:46. Make no delays nor stops by the way, neither by words nor actions, but go with all possible speed. Compare Luke 10:4. He requires this haste, that the miracle might be done secretly and speedily, before the child's death was divulged, which might cause many inconveniences. See Poole on "2 Kings 4:21". Lay my staff upon the face of the child; for God can work a miracle by the most unlikely and contemptible means, as he did by a rod, Exodus 14:16, and a mantle, 2 Kings 2:8.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 29. _SALUTE HIM NOT_] Make all the haste thou possibly canst, and lay my staff on the face of the child; he probably thought that it might be a case of mere _suspended animation_ or a _swoon_, a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SALUTE HIM NOT - Compare the marginal reference. Salutation is the forerunner of conversation and one bent on speed would avoid every temptation to loiter. LAY MY STAFF UPON THE FACE OF THE CHILD - P...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAID. In what Elisha said the signs given are put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the things symbolized by them. SALUTE HIM NOT. Idiom. The salutation being ceremonial and tak...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Gird up thy loins_ With the loose flowing garments of Orientals it is needful when haste is desired, to gather them up and bind them together so that they do not impede the traveller. This is done by...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 T...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GIRD UP THY LOINS] The direction was necessary, for the garments were usually worn loose and flowing. SALUTE HIM NOT] To do so would waste time. LAY MY STAFF] Elisha seems to have thought that as Elij...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF THOU MEET ANY MAN, SALUTE HIM NOT. — An injunction of utmost _haste_. (Comp. the similar words of our Saviour, Luke 10:4.) A short greeting might end in a long halt. “Orientals lose much time in te...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר לְ גֵיחֲזִ֜י חֲגֹ֣ר מָתְנֶ֗יךָ וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: (p) if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Salute him not. He that is sent to raise to life the sinner spiritually dead, must not suffer himself to be called off, or diverted from his enterprise, by the salutations or ceremonies of the world....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN HE SAID TO GEHAZI, GIRD UP THY LOINS,.... His loose and long garments about him, that he might make quicker dispatch in travelling: AND TAKE MY STAFF IN THINE HAND, AND GO THY WAY; not for the s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins_ Tie up thy long garments about thy loins for expedition. _If thou meet any man_, &c. Make no delays or stops by the way, either through words or actions, but go...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, for a rapid trip, 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; he was...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 4:29 said H559 (H8799) Gehazi H1522 ready H2296 (H8798) H4975 take H3947 (H8798) staff...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:29 TIE UP YOUR GARMENT. As the woman had arrived at Carmel in great haste (v. 2 Kings 4:24), Elisha sends Gehazi back to Shunem in similar haste, hi

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13; 2 Kings 2:14; 2 Kings 2:8; 2 Kings 9:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Gird up — Tie up thy long garments about thy loins for expedition. If thou meet, &c. — Make no delay nor stop by the way, neither by words nor actions....

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