2 Kings 4:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then she came.And she went in.

He said.LXX., “Elisha said.”

Thy debt. — Right. Margin incorrect.

And live thou and thy children. — Heb., and thou — thy sons — thou mayest live. Clearly “and” has fallen out before the second word. Many MSS. and all the versions have it.

Thou. — ’Attî, an archaism, perhaps retained in the dialect of northern Israel (1 Kings 14:2).

Of the rest.On what is left over — i.e., of the price of the oil.

(8–37) The Shunammitess and her son.

2 Kings 4:7

7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt,a and live thou and thy children of the rest.