There was a dearth in the land - Rather, “The famine was in the land.” The seven years’ dearth of which Elisha had prophesied (marginal reference) had begun.
The sons of the prophets - See 1 Kings 20:35 note. They were sitting before him as scholars before their master, hearing his instructions.
Verse 38. _CAME AGAIN TO GILGAL_] He had been there before with his master, a short time prior to his translation. _SET ON THE GREAT POT AND SEETHE POTTAGE FOR THE SONS OF THE_ _PROPHETS._] It was i...
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
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...
Elisha at Gilgal heals the noxious Pottage (Not in Chronicles) 38. _Elisha came again to Gilgal_ There are no notes of time in this narrative, or in the others, though we can see, here and there, that...
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...
_AND ELISHA CAME AGAIN TO GILGAL: AND THERE WAS A DEARTH IN THE LAND; AND THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS WERE SITTING BEFORE HIM: AND HE SAID UNTO HIS SERVANT, SET ON THE GREAT POT, AND SEETHE POTTAGE FOR T...
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...
A DEARTH] Perhaps the famine related in 2 Kings 8:1....
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 ELISHA CAME AGAIN. — _Now Elisha had returned_, commencing a new narrative. The word “return” refers to the prophet’s annual visit. (Comp. 2 Kings 4:25, and 2 Kings 2:1, Notes.) The story is not p...
(38-44) Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the famine....
וֶ אֱלִישָׁ֞ע שָׁ֤ב הַ גִּלְגָּ֨לָה֙ וְ הָ
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...
“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...
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 Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the (s) land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottag...
_Galgal, where he had been often before. --- Dwelt. Hebrew, "sat," like disciples attending to the instructions of their master, Acts xxii. 3. (Calmet) --- To one, &c. Hebrew and Septuagint, "to his s...
This setting before the prophet, implies receiving instruction: probably expounding the scripture. Ezekiel 8:1....
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 ELISHA CAME AGAIN TO GILGAL,.... Where he was with Elijah a little before his assumption to heaven, 2 Kings 2:1 and whither he went, there being a school of the prophets, as he did to all places w...
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage fo...
_There was a dearth in the land_ The same that we read of chap. 2 Kings 3:1. It continued seven years, just as long again as that in the time of Elijah. For if a wicked nation will not be reformed by...
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 Elisha came again, at some other time, TO GILGAL, in the hill country of Central Canaan. AND THERE WAS A DEARTH IN THE LAND, a severe famine; AND THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS WERE SITTING BEFORE HIM,...
AMONG TTHE SONS OF THE PROPHETS...
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...
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...
ELISHA CAME AGAIN TO GILGAL; where he came with Elijah, 2 KINGS 2:1; where was a school of the prophets, whom he designed to comfort concerning the present dearth and their other discouragements, and...
2 Kings 4:38 Elisha H477 returned H7725 (H8804) Gilgal H1537 famine H7458 land H776 sons H1121 prophets H5030 sitting
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...
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 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...
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 4:38 A general state of FAMINE does not imply a complete absence of food (see, e.g., vv. 2 Kings 4:42)....
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...
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 Samuel 19:20; 1 Samuel 7:16; 1 Samuel 7:17; 2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 2:3;