2 Kings 4:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. ”

2 Kings 4:26 - 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 4:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

now. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "now therefore".
2 Kings 4:26 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 364 ALL THE DISPENSATIONS OF PROVIDENCE ARE GOOD 2 Kings 4:26 . And she answered, It is well. TO serve the Lord with our talents is the best possible improvement of them. Even as it...
2 Kings 4:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. It is well - How strong was he...
2 Kings 4:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. And she answered, It is well....
2 Kings 4:26 - 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 4:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Run now, I pray thee, to meet her. — This perhaps indicates the respect in which Elisha held the Shunammitess. But it may denote surprise and apprehension at an unusual visit. Hence the inquiries...
2 Kings 4:26 - 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 4:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Dead Boy Restored to Life 2 Kings 4:25-37 There is fine illustration in this chapter of a noble reverence for goodness, of a good man's gratitude, and of the large reward that never fails t...
2 Kings 4:26 - 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 4:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The relation of this scriptural story, in the mere letter of the subject, is uncommonly interesting. The prophet's salutation and enquiry of her welfare, and that of her family, and her short but exp...
2 Kings 4:26 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE HEALTH OF THE SOUL ‘Is it well with thee?’ 2 Kings 4:26 This is a common inquiry concerning the body. To ask about the health is the first question usually when friends meet: and truly o...
2 Kings 4:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Run now, I pray thee, to meet her ,.... In respect to her, and to know the occasion of her coming; something is the cause of it: and say unto her, is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband...
2 Kings 4:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, [Is it] well with thee? [is it] well with thy husband? [is it] well with the child? And she answered, [It is] well. Ver. 26. And she answered,...
2 Kings 4:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

She came to the man of God to mount Carmel This was a place which both he and Elijah much frequented; and it is probable there was a school of the prophets here, it being a mountain full of trees,...
2 Kings 4:26 - 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 4:26 - 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 4:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So it was in some respects, because it was the will of a wise and good God, and therefore best for her. Or, it shall be well: though the child be dead, I doubt not by God's blessing upon thy endeavou...
2 Kings 4:26 - 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 4:26 - 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 4:26 - 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 4:26 - 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 4:26 - 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 4:26 - 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 4:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life
2 Kings 4:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 17:18 ; 1 Samuel 3:18 ; 2 Kings 4:23 ; Acts 15:36 ; Genesis 29:6 ; Genesis 37:14 ; Job 1:21 ; Job 1:22 ; Leviticus 10:3 ; Matthew 10:12 ; Matthew 10:13 ; Psalms 39:9 ; Zechariah...
2 Kings 4:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It is — So it was in some respects, because it was the will of a wise and good God, and therefore best for her. When God calls away our dearest relations by death, it becomes us to say, it is well...

2 Kings 4:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 4:26 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Kings 4:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 4:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 4:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 4:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 4:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 4:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 4:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 4:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes