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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:16-17

About this season, according to the time of life About this time next year; see on Genesis 18:10; thou shall embrace a son She had received this prophet in the name of a prophet, and now she receives, not a courtier's reward, in being spoken for to the king, but a prophet's reward, a signal mercy, given in answer to a prophet's prayer. Nay, my lord, do not lie unto thy handmaid Do not delude me with vain hopes. She could not believe it for joy. The woman bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her The event, within the time limited, confirmed the truth of the promise. God built up her house in reward of her kindness in building the prophet a chamber.

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See also 2 Kings 4:16-17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 4:16. _THOU SHALT EMBRACE A SON._] This _promise_, and the _circumstances_ of the parties, are not very dissimilar to that relative to the birth of Isaac, and those of Abraham and Sarah....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DO NOT LIE - Compare a similar incredulity in Genesis 17:17; Genesis 18:12; Luke 1:20. The expression, “do not lie,” which is harsh to us, accords with the plain, straightforward simplicity of ancient...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _according to the time of life_ R.V. WHEN THE TIME COMETH ROUND. The literal sense of the verb is explained on the margin of R.V. = liveth, or reviveth. The phrase is the same which is used Genesis 18...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE SAID, WHAT THEN IS TO BE DONE FOR HER? AND GEHAZI ANSWERED, VERILY SHE HATH NO CHILD, AND HER HUSBAND IS OLD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:16 come, (e-12) Or 'at [this] time of the year' [lit. 'life'], as ver. 17; Genesis 18:14 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE] RV 'when the time cometh round,' i.e. in the spring of the following year....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 *...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ABOUT THIS SEASON. — _At this set time_. ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE. — Rather, _at the reviving time — i.e._, next spring; or, _when the time revives_ — _i.e._, in the following year: a phrase occu...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר לַ † מֹּועֵ֤ד הַ זֶּה֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Womb. Hebrew, "At this season, according to the time of life, (Haydock; or of a woman with child, Menochius) thou shalt embrace a son" in thy arms. (Haydock) See Genesis xviii. 10. (Calmet) --- If is...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    In order to have a clear conception of the great earnestness manifested among all the Israelites for children, it should be remembered that this was with an eye to the coming Messiah. That promised se...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SAID, ABOUT THIS SEASON,.... In the next year: ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE; the usual time women go with child: THOU SHALT EMBRACE A SON; in thine arms, that shall be born of thee, which sh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou] man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid. Ver. 16. _About this season,_]...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, in the natural course of events, THOU SHALT EMBRACE A SON. AND SHE, almost overwhelmed by the prospect which exceeded her fondest hopes,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELISHA AND THE SHUNAMMITE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SEASON: _ Heb._ set time...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ACCORDING TO THE TIME OF LIFE; of which phrase SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 18:10". DO NOT LIE UNTO THINE HANDMAID; do not delude me with vain hopes. She could not believe it for joy, and supposed the prophe...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 4:16 said H559 (H8799) time H4150 year H6256 H2416 embrace H2263 (H8802) son H1121 said...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 4:1 Several more miracles by Elisha remind the reader of the miracles performed by his predecessor, Elijah. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 17:18; 1 Kings 18:9; 2 Kings 2:19; 2 Kings 4:28; 2 Kings 5:10

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Do not lie — Do not delude me with vain hopes. She could not believe it for joy....

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