2 Kings 4:36 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. ”

2 Kings 4:36 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take up thy son - Compare Elijah’s action (marginal reference “t”) and our Blessed Lord’s Luke 7:15 .
2 Kings 4:36 - 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 4:36 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Take up thy son. The seventh miracle ( 2 Kings 2:15 ).
2 Kings 4:36 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
2 Kings 4:36 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. No JFB commentary on these verses.
2 Kings 4:36 - 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 4:36 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take up thy son. — So our Lord “delivered to his mother” the young man whom He raised from death by His word ( Luke 7:15 ).
2 Kings 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And will not the resurrection of the bodies of believers at the last day, be accomplished in a similar way? Shall not the soul take up the body? and then from being a glorified body, no longer partak...
2 Kings 4:36 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he called Gehazi, and said, call this Shunammite ,.... To come up to the chamber to him: so he called her: and when she was come in unto him, he said, take up thy son ; from off the bed, alive...
2 Kings 4:36 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. Ver. 36. Take up thy son. ] Now two sons in one, and never so...
2 Kings 4:36 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When she was come in unto him Hebrew, come to him , namely, to the door of his chamber, where probably he met her with the joyful message. Then she went in Into his chamber: and after she had th...
2 Kings 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Come in unto him, Heb. come to him, to wit, to the door of his chamber; where probably he met her with this joyful message.
2 Kings 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - 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 4:36 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life
2 Kings 4:36 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 17:23 ; 2 Kings 4:12 ; Hebrews 11:35 ; Luke 7:15
2 Kings 4:36 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Unto him — To the door.

2 Kings 4:36 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Kings 4:36 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Kings 4:36 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 4:36 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Kings 4:36 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Kings 4:36 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Kings 4:36 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Kings 4:36 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Kings 4:36 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 4:36 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes