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Verse 2 Kings 4:8. _ELISHA PASSED TO SHUNEM_] This city was in the
tribe of Issachar, to the south of the brook Kishon, and at the foot
of Mount Tabor.
_WHERE_ WAS _A GREAT WOMAN_] In _Pirkey Rab. El...
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AND IT FELL ON A DAY - The original of the expression here used, which
occurs three times in the present narrative 2 Kings 4:11, 2 Kings
4:18, is also found in Job 1:6,...
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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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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...
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SHUNEM. In the plain of Esdraelon. The native place of Abishag (1
Kings 1:3).
GREAT. wealthy, or. person of position (2 Samuel 19:32)....
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Elisha promises a son to the hospitable Shunammite (Not in Chronicles)
8. _And it fell on a day_ From its use elsewhere the Hebrew noun, as
here, with the article signifies -on that day", -at that ti...
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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...
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_AND IT FELL ON A DAY, THAT ELISHA PASSED TO SHUNEM, WHERE WAS A GREAT
WOMAN; AND SHE CONSTRAINED HIM TO EAT BREAD. AND SO IT WAS, THAT AS
OFT AS HE PASSED BY, HE TURNED IN THITHER TO EAT BREAD._
Eli...
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4:8 wealthy (a-17) Strictly, 'great.'...
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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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A GREAT WOMAN] i.e. wealthy and influential: cp. 1 Samuel 25:2; 2
Samuel 19:32....
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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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AND IT FELL ON A DAY. — Rather, _And it came to pass at that time._
Literally, _during that day_, referring to the period of the miracle
just related. Perhaps, too, the contrast of the poor and rich w...
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וַ יְהִ֨י הַ יֹּ֜ום וַ יַּעֲבֹ֧ר
אֱלִישָׁ֣ע
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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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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...
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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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_Sunam, the birth-place of the beautiful virgin Abisag, (3 Kings i.
3.) at the foot of Thabor, (Calmet) and not above a mile from Carmel,
ver. 23. (Tirinus) --- Great woman, "renowned for piety" (Arab...
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It appears from Elisha's history that he frequently travelled from
mount Carmel to Samaria, and therefore was necessarily obliged to ass
through Shunem, which was a small city belonging to the tribe o...
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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 IT FELL ON A DAY,.... Or so it was at a certain time:
THAT ELISHA PASSED TO SHUNEM; a city in the tribe of Issachar; of
which see Joshua 19:18,
WHERE WAS A GREAT WOMAN; of great wealth and riche...
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And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where [was] a
great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And [so] it was,
[that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread....
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_Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman_ Great for estate,
or birth and quality. _And she constrained him to eat bread_ Pressed
him with great importunity, and at length, with great difficul...
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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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ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE...
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And it fell on a day, just about that time, THAT ELISHA PASSED TO
SHUNEM, a city in the northern part of the Plain of Jezreel, on the
slope of the Little Hermon, WHERE WAS A GREAT WOMAN, one of
consid...
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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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IT FELL ON A DAY:
_ Heb._ there was a day
CONSTRAINED:
_ Heb._ laid hold on him...
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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...
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TO SHUNNAM a city in Issachar, near Mount Carmel, JOSHUA 19:17,18,
whither the prophet frequently went. WAS A GREAT WOMAN; for estate, or
birth and quality. See GENESIS 24:35 1 SAMUEL 25:2. She const
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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...
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1). A WEALTHY COUPLE PROVIDE A PERMANENT LODGING PLACE FOR ELISHA FOR
WHEN HE VISITS SHUNEM (2 KINGS 4:8).
The story commences with the kindness of a wealthy couple who truly
believe in YHWH to YHWH'...
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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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_Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the
prophets._
THE WIDOW’S POT OF OIL
If we are to believe the voice of tradition as expressed by Josephus,
the subject of this touching s...
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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 4:8. 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...
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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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1 Kings 1:3; 1 Samuel 28:4; 2 Kings 4:11; 2 Kings 4:12; 2 Kings 4:18;...
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Great — For estate, or birth and quality....