Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 4:13
I dwell — I live among my kindred and friends; nor have I any cause to seek relief from higher powers.
I dwell — I live among my kindred and friends; nor have I any cause to seek relief from higher powers.
Verse 2 Kings 4:13. _WOULDEST THOU BE SPOKEN FOR TO THE KING_] Elisha must have had considerable influence with the king, from the part he took in the late war with the Moabites. Jehoram had reason to...
THOU HAST BEEN CAREFUL FOR US - For the prophet and his servant, who must have been lodged as well as his master. I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN PEOPLE - The woman declines Elisha’s offer. She has no wrong t...
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
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...
CAREFUL... CARE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton =_ exceedingly careful. SPOKEN FOR TO THE KING. This confidence in his influence with the king is accounted for by the miraculous aid recently given by E...
_And he said unto him_ i.e. Elisha to Gehazi. The prophet does not himself address the woman. Most likely, in all things which he required, Gehazi was his messenger to the house, and so the woman woul...
DISCOURSE: 363 CONTENTMENT ILLUSTRATED IN THE SHUNAMITE 2 Kings 4:13. _What is to be done for thee? Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell a...
I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN PEOPLE— The phrase shews us the moderation of this woman, who was removed from all intercourse with courts, and from all ambition to be concerned with them. REFLECTIONS.—Elisha...
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...
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, SAY NOW UNTO HER, BEHOLD, THOU HAST BEEN CAREFUL FOR US WITH ALL THIS CARE; WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR THEE? WOULDEST THOU BE SPOKEN FOR TO THE KING, OR TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST?...
4:13 care; (d-20) Or 'alacrity.'...
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...
HE SAID UNTO HIM, etc.] in the East women were (and are) lightly esteemed, and direct communications were rarely held with them by persons who had a character for sanctity (cp. John 4:27): see 2 Kings...
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 *...
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM — _i.e._, Elisha, as he lay on the bed (2 Kings 4:11), had charged Gehazi to say this when he called their hostess. It is hardly likely that Elisha communicated with her through h...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר לֹ֗ו אֱמָר ־נָ֣א אֵלֶיהָ֮ הִנֵּ֣ה
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...
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...
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...
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; (i) what [is] to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the h...
He said, or "he had said;" (Junius and Piscator) so that we may include this and the following verse within a parenthesis, as alluding to what had passed before; (Calmet) unless the woman, out of mode...
There is a nobleness of soul in the woman, in thus declining court favor. The prophet's interest was more with God than with the king. It is as if she had said, Speak for me not to man, but to God. Re...
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...
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...
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM,...., To Gehazi, before he went to call her: SAY NOW UNTO HER, BEHOLD, THOU HAST BEEN CAREFUL FOR US WITH ALL THIS CARE; in building a chamber, and furnishing it with proper hous...
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what [is] to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?...
_What is to be done for thee?_ Wherein can I serve thee? For he was very desirous, as all good men are, to be grateful. “They that receive courtesies,” says Henry, “should study to return them. It ill...
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...
ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE...
And he said unto him, before he went down, SAY NOW UNTO HER, BEHOLD, THOU HAST BEEN CAREFUL FOR US WITH ALL THIS CARE, she had shown them all possible careful consideration, the most painstaking hospi...
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...
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...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE FOR THEE? wherewith shall I recompense all thy care and kindness to me and my servant? TO THE KING, OR TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST; with whom he justly had great power for his eminen...
2 Kings 4:13 said H559 (H8799) Say H559 (H8798) concerned H2729 (H8804) care H2731 do H6213 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_I dwell among mine own people._ INFLUENCE We contend that there is not a man, who does not dwell among a host of persons who are under his influence, who listen to his voice, and echo his thoughts....
_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...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah. ⇐...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:13 A WORD SPOKEN ON YOUR BEHALF. Elisha offers to help the Shunammite woman secure benefits from government officials. She has no need of their help, however, because she is...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 2:32; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:13; 1 Timothy 6:6;...