2 Kings 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Gehazi his servant. — First mentioned here. His name means “valley of vision,” and is perhaps derived from his native place, which may have got its name from being a haunt of prophets.

His servant.His young man (Genesis 22:3).

She stood before himi.e., before Gehazi. The sentence, “And when he had called her, she stood before him,” is an anticipation of the result, and might be placed within a parenthesis.

2 Kings 4:12

12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.