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Verse 39. _WILD GOURDS_] This is generally thought to be the
_coloquintida_, the fruit of a plant of the same name, about the size
of a large orange. It is brought hither from the Levant, and is often...
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A WILD VINE - Not a real wild vine, the fruit of which, if not very
palatable, is harmless; but some climbing plant with tendrils. The
plant was probably either the Ecbalium elaterium, or “squirting
c...
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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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TWO MINOR MIRACLES OF ELISHA. The death (poison) in the pot healed and
the feeding of a hundred prophets. The bread of the firstfruits (2
Kings 4:42) was by the Law the property of the priests (Number...
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WILD VINE: i.e.. plant with vine-like tendrils. Not the grape, but
probably the colocynth....
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_And one went out_ As the needful services were performed by the
members of the college among themselves, it was no doubt one of them
who went into the field to gather such herbs as he could find.
_a...
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FOUND A WILD VINE, AND GATHERED THEREOF WILD GOURDS, &C.— See
Hiller. Hieroph. part 2: p. 220. This is generally supposed to have
been the _coloquintida_ plant, which is so very bitter that some have...
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II. MIRACLES ON BEHALF OF THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS 4:38-44
As the spiritual head of the sons of the prophets, Elisha frequently
was called upon apparently to use his powers for the benefit of the
grou...
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_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...
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A WILD VINE] not a real vine, but a vine-like plant, usually
identified with the bitter cucumber or colocynth, bearing a fruit
resembling an orange, which is very bitter in taste....
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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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HERBS. — A rare word. (See Isaiah 26:19.) The Targum renders
“greens.” The LXX. retains the Hebrew word; the Syriac and Arabic
render “mallows.” Thenius thinks that αριωθ, the reading of
the LXX., poi...
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(38-44) Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the
famine....
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וַ יֵּצֵ֨א אֶחָ֣ד אֶל ־הַ שָּׂדֶה֮ לְ
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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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“WHO GIVETH FOOD TO ALL FLESH”
2 Kings 4:38
This miracle, it has been justly remarked, is a faint foreshadowing of
our Lord's marvelous feeding of thousands with even scantier
materials. As Elijah wa...
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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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And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a (t) 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....
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Wild herbs. Hebrew oroth. Septuagint Greek: arioth, may denote any
thing that could be "gathered." --- Gourds: colocynthides. They
resembled cucumbers; but were so bitter, that they were styled, "the...
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The poison in the food, spiritually explained, leads us to consider
how cautious men should be, and especially the sons of the prophets,
in consenting to anything but what the apostle calls wholesome...
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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 ONE WENT OUT INTO THE FIELDS TO GATHER HERBS,.... To put into the
pottage, the gardens affording none in this time of dearth; or,
however, being scarce, were at too great a price for the sons of t...
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_And found a wild vine_ This is generally supposed to have been the
_coloquintida_ plant, which has a leaf something like that of the
vine, but is so very bitter, that some have called it “the gall of...
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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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And one, one of the pupils, WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD TO GATHER HERBS,
any greens which might still be available, AND FOUND A WILD VINE, a
plant on the order of a grape-vine, either a wild cucumber or t...
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AMONG TTHE SONS OF THE PROPHETS...
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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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38-44 There was a famine of bread, but not of hearing the word of
God, for Elisha had the sons of the prophets sitting before him, to
hear his wisdom. Elisha made hurtful food to become safe and
whol...
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A WILD VINE; a plant called coloquintida, whose gourds or leaves
resemble the leaves of a vine, and are very bitter and pernicious to
the eater....
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2 Kings 4:39 one H259 out H3318 (H8799) field H7704 gather H3950
(H8763) herbs H219 found H4672 ...
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DEATH IN THE POT (2 KINGS 4:38).
To turn this story into an example of the culinary art, with Elisha as
the experienced chief cook is to misrepresent it. Whatever we may
think it is quite clear that t...
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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 Elisha came again to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the land._
MINISTRIES TO MAN, GOOD AND BAD
Elisha had returned to Gilgal, the seat of a school of the prophets;
he had come thither once m...
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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 4:38. SONS OF THE PROPHETS WERE SITTING BEFORE HIM—This
means, not that they lived in common with Elisha, but sat as scholars
before him for teaching. SEETHE...
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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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Hebrews 12:15; Isaiah 5:4; Jeremiah 2:21; Matthew 15:13...