Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Kings 4:23
New moon, &c. — Which were the usual times in which they resorted to the prophets for instruction. It shall be well — My going will not be troublesome to him, nor prejudicial to thee or me.
New moon, &c. — Which were the usual times in which they resorted to the prophets for instruction. It shall be well — My going will not be troublesome to him, nor prejudicial to thee or me.
Verse 2 Kings 4:23. _WHEREFORE WILT THOU GO_] She was a very prudent woman; she would not harass the feelings of her husband by informing him of the death of his son till she had tried the power of t...
Her husband did not connect the illness with his wife’s demand, but thought she wished to attend one of the prophet’s devotional services. It is evident that such services were now held with something...
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...
it is _neither new moon, nor sabbath_ These were the principal occasions of assembling for worship, and it is clear from this history that even in Israel, while the house of Ahab was still on the thro...
IT IS NEITHER NEW MOON NOR SABBATH— No stated public day, upon which the prophets used to preach and instruct the people, and on which, consequently, they were always to be found by such as wanted the...
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...
_AND HE SAID, WHEREFORE WILT THOU GO TO HIM TO DAY? IT IS NEITHER NEW MOON, NOR SABBATH. AND SHE SAID, IT SHALL BE WELL._ Wherefore will thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath. It a...
4:23 well. (h-23) Lit. 'Peace,' so also (4 times) in ver. 26....
NEITHER NEW MOON, NOR SABBATH] The Shunammite's husband did not connect his wife's proposed visit to the prophet with the death of his child, but with some religious duty. The new moon (i.e. the first...
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...
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 *...
WILTT THOU GO. — _Art thou going_. Archaic forms of the pronoun and participle are here used. IT IS NEITHER NEW MOON, NOR SABBATH. — Comp. Amos 8:5. This remark is interesting, because it implies that...
וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר מַ֠דּוּעַ _אַ֣תְּ_† _הֹלֶ֤כֶת_† אֵלָיו֙ הַ...
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, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it is] neither (n) new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well. (n) For at such times the people were wont to resort to the prophets fo...
Moon, a day of devotion, (Numbers x. 10.; Calmet) or probably of obligation, like the sabbath, on which no long journey could be undertaken, (Tirinus; ver. 8.) unless for the sake of piety, (Exodus xx...
What can be the object of this Shunammite in this journey? Are not all her hopes now gone? The child is dead. Had he still life in him there might be hopes. But now he is dead; wherefore go to the pro...
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, WHEREFORE WILT THOU GO TO HIM TODAY?.... What reason is there for it? what is the meaning of it? IT IS NEITHER NEW MOON NOR SABBATH; neither the first day of the month, nor the seventh d...
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it is] neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well. Ver. 23. _Wherefore wilt thou go to him today?_] Her husband knew nothing t...
_She called to her husband, and said_ By a messenger whom she sent into the field to him. She seems not to have acquainted him with the child's death; probably she feared, if he knew on what errand sh...
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...
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath, the times when religious assemblies were held and the people came to the prophets for instruction. AND SHE SAID, I...
The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life...
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...
WELL: _ Heb._ peace...
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,...
NEW MOON AND SABBATH were the chief and usual times in which they resorted to the prophets for instruction, for which he supposed she now went, not suspecting but that the child was well by this time....
2 Kings 4:23 said H559 (H8799) going H1980 (H8802) today H3117 Moon H2320 Sabbath H7676 said H559 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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 4:23 Her husband’s response implies that it was customary in Israel to consult prophets only on particular days—the NEW MOON and the SABBATH (see...
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...
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 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Kings 4:26; Isaiah 1:13; Numbers 10:10;...