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Verse 30. _I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE._] The prophet it seems had no design
to accompany her; he intended to wait for Gehazi's return; but as the
woman was well assured the child was _dead_, she was determ...
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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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THY SOUL. thou....
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_I will not leave thee_ Whether the staff sent by Gehazi may have an
effect, she cannot know. Her only security is in Elisha's presence,
and with him she will return to her desolated home. It seems as...
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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...
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_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....
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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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I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE. — She wished the prophet himself to go to her
child. The writer appropriately substitutes “the mother of the
child” for “the Shunammite” or “the woman” in connection
with this i...
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וַ תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֵ֣ם הַ נַּ֔עַר חַי
־יְהוָ֥ה
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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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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...
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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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It is gracious when Jesus sends his servants, the ministers of his
gospel, to his people, and commissions them to good. But, oh! how
infinitely surpassing the whole choir of angels in their ministerin...
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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 THE MOTHER OF THE CHILD SAID,.... Having no faith in what the
servant was to do, or could do:
AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE;
signifying she would not go with h...
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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.
Ver. 30. _And he arose, and followed her._] As our Saviour als...
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_And the mother of the child said, I will not leave thee_ Until thou
goest with me; for she had no great confidence in Gehazi, nor was her
faith so strong as to think that the prophet could work so gr...
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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 Shunammite's Son Restored to Life...
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And the mother of the child, fearing that the prophet would not
personally go to Shunem, SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH AND AS THY SOUL
LIVETH, I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE. She insisted that he come in person.
AN...
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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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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,...
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2 Kings 4:30 mother H517 child H5288 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068
lives H2416 soul H5315 lives H2416 leave...
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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...
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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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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 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...
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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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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:30 I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU. The woman does
not accept Elisha’s plan to resurrect the boy from a distance, by
his STAFF. She wants his personal attention, which in the end does
p...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 2:2; 2 Kings 2:4; Exodus 33:12; Ruth 1:16...
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Will not leave thee — Until thou goest home with me. For she had no
great confidence in Gehazi, nor was her faith so strong as to think
that the prophet could work so great a miracle at this distance....