2 Kings 4:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. ”

2 Kings 4:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The child’s malady was a sunstroke. The inhabitants of Palestine suffered from this ( Psalms 121:6 ; Isaiah 49:10 ; Judith 8:3).
2 Kings 4:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And he said unto his father, (m) My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. (m) His head was hurt badly and therefore he cried.
2 Kings 4:19 - 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 p...
2 Kings 4:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. My head, my head - Probably affected by the coup de soleil, or sun stroke, which might, in so young a sub...
2 Kings 4:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. My head, my head! The cries of the boy, the part affected, and the season of the year, make it pr...
2 Kings 4:19 - 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...
2 Kings 4:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My head, my head. — The boy had a sunstroke. It was the hot season of harvest, and his head was probably uncovered. A lad. — Rather, the young man. The servant waiting on him.
2 Kings 4:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

ELISHA'S MIRACLES 2 Kings 4:1-44 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 cl...
2 Kings 4:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Entertaining a Prophet 2 Kings 4:8-24 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...
2 Kings 4:19 - 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...
2 Kings 4:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What an unexpected event was this? Who would have thought that a child unasked, and given at the instance of the prophet's prayer, should be thus soon recalled. Reader! do not fail to gather from it...
2 Kings 4:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto his father, my head, my head ,.... After he had been some time with him, he complained of a pain in his head, which might be owing, as Abarbinel thinks, to the sun's beating upon it...
2 Kings 4:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. Ver. 19. And he said to his father, My head, my head. ] The sunbeams in that hot season of harvest had...
2 Kings 4:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He went out to his father to the reapers Either for pleasure, or with some message to him. He said to his father, My head, my head! A more than common heat of the sun probably made him thus ill....
2 Kings 4:19 - L. 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 provide...
2 Kings 4:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of the Shunammite's Son; The Shunammite's Son Restored. B. C. 887. 18 And wh...
2 Kings 4:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His head was grievously pained; which possibly came from the heat of the harvest season, to which he was exposed in the field.
2 Kings 4:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Elisha And The Shunammite Woman ( 2 Kings 4:8-37 ). Shunem was near a well travelled road between Mount Carmel and Jezreel, one which Elisha would use frequently. In the process he became recognis...
2 Kings 4:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 mi...
2 Kings 4:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:8-38 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 t...
2 Kings 4:19 - 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 w...
2 Kings 4:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 stor...
2 Kings 4:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Kings 4:1-12 TYPICAL MIRACLES WROUGHT BY ELISHA . General introduction . The miracles of this chapter are all of them miracles of mercy. The first and last consist...
2 Kings 4:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life
2 Kings 4:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:19 ; Job 14:1 ; Job 14:2

2 Kings 4:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 4:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 4:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 4:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 4:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 4:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 4:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge