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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:24

Verse 2 Kings 4:24. Drive, and go forward] It is customary in the East for a servant to walk along side or drive the ass his master rides. Sometimes he walks behind, and goads on the beast; and when it is to turn, he directs its head with the long pole of the goad. It is probably to this custom that the wise man alludes when he says, "I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth," on the ground.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SLACK NOT THY RIDING - Translate, “delay me not in my riding, except I bid thee.” The servant went on foot with the donkey to urge it forward, as is the ordinary custom in the East....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • 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

    _slack not_thy _riding for me_ R.V. SLACKEN ME NOT THE RIDING. The R.V. thus avoids the pronominal adjective, which has no equivalent in the Hebrew. The servant seems to have been one to run by the si...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DRIVE, AND GO FORWARD— The appearance of travellers in the Holy Land, differs a good deal from that of those who journey among us. To see a person _mounted,_ and attended by a servant _on foot,_ would...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN SHE SADDLED AN ASS, AND SAID TO HER SERVANT, DRIVE, AND GO FORWARD; SLACK NOT THY RIDING FOR ME, EXCEPT I BID THEE._ SAID TO HER SERVANT, DRIVE, AND GO FORWARD. It is usual for women to ride on...

  • 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

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SHE SADDLED AN ASS. — _And she saddled the ass_ — _i.e._, which the young man brought, and probably saddled at her bidding. SLACK NOT THY RIDING FOR ME. — Literally, _restrain me not from riding...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ תַּחֲבֹשׁ֙ הָֽ אָתֹ֔ון וַ תֹּ֥אמֶר אֶֽל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • 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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SLACK NOT THY RIDING: _ Heb._ restrain not for me to ride...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 4:24 saddled H2280 (H8799) donkey H860 said H559 (H8799) servant H5288 Drive H5090 (H8798) forward...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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