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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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_they did eat, and left_thereof] Compare with this the miracles of our
Lord (Matthew 14:15-21; Matthew 15:32-38; John 6:5-14). In this
account of Elisha there is however not much dwelling on the incre...
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B. MULTIPLICATION OF THE LOAVES 4:42-44
TRANSLATION
(42) And a man came from Baal-shalisha, and he brought to the man of
God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and grain in his
sack. A...
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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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(38-44) Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the
famine....
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AND THEY DID EAT, AND LEFT THEREOF. — Comp. our Lord’s miracles,
already referred to. Bähr denies any miraculous increase of the food.
He makes the miracle consist in the fact that the one hundred men...
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וַ יִּתֵּ֧ן לִ פְנֵיהֶ֛ם וַ
יֹּאכְל֥וּ וַ
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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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I cannot help remarking again, if peradventure I have mentioned it
before, that among the precious things of the sacred scriptures of the
Old Testament, those are not the least, which represent the Ho...
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REFLECTIONS
How lovely is it to behold in this great woman of Shunem, (as she is
called) the blessed fruits of real piety. Reader! if we love Jesus, we
cannot but love his people. This commandment hav...
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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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SO HE SET IT BEFORE THEM,.... The twenty barley loaves, and the full
ears of corn:
AND THEY DID EAT, AND LEFT THEREOF, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD;
as the disciples did at the miracle of the lo...
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So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left [thereof],
according to the word of the LORD.
Ver. 44. _And they did eat, and left._] It grew in their hands, as Mat
14:20 John 6:12,13 ....
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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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So he set it before them, and they did eat, the quantity being
increased in a miraculous manner in the course of the meal, AND LEFT
THEREOF, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, as in the case of the
gr...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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2 Kings 4:44 set H5414 (H8799) before H6440 ate H398 (H8799) over
H3498 (H8686) word H1697 LORD...
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ELISHA FEEDS A ‘MULTITUDE' WITH A RELATIVELY FEW LOAVES OF BREAD (2
KINGS 4:42).
While the likeness to the account of the feeding of many thousands by
Jesus with five loaves and two fish is limited to...
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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 there came a man from Baal-shalisha._
THE FARMER’S GIFT
I. A lesson on providence. This dearth came in consequence of sin. The
proud and wicked people would never yield, except they were obliged...
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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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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:42 BREAD OF THE FIRSTFRUITS. The second
miracle of the chapter also concerns provision for people who depend
on Elisha. A limited amount of food is multiplied (compare vv....
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_HOMILETICS OF 2 Kings 4:42_
THE SUPERABUNDANT GOODNESS OF GOD
I. PROVIDES FOR THE DAILY WANTS OF MAN. “Give unto the people that
they may eat” (2 Kings 4:42). How enormous are the thought and toil
i...
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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...