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Great grief shrinks from putting itself into words. The Shunammite cannot bring herself to say, “My son is dead;” but by reproaching the prophet wi...
Elisha and the Shunammite Woman. This gives one of the most delightful pictures of rural life in ancient Israel. It describes the kindly hospitalit...
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? Did I desire a son of my lord? - I expressed no such wish to thee; I...
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Le...
Various Miracles of Elisha The miracles related of Elisha in this and the following Chapter s resemble many of those previously recounted of Elija...
Then. — And ; so in 2 Kings 4:29 ; 2 Kings 4:35 . Did I desire ( ask ) a son of my lord? — Only the conclusion of her appeal is given. She...
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 illus...
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 gra...
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 t...
This is a most interesting part of the narrative. It is here rising to a great degree of earnestness. Her whole soul was in action, and the body part...
Then she said, did I desire a son of my lord ?.... It was not at her request she had one, at least the first motion was not from her; the prophet fi...
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? Ver. 28. Did I desire a son of my lord? ] Was I too desirous, or u...
She said, Did I desire a son of my lord? This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastise...
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...
The Death of the Shunammite's Son; The Shunammite's Son Restored. B. C. 887....
This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised, as Rachel was, Genesis 30:1 , compare...
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...
3). When The Son Grows To Boyhood He Dies Suddenly, And On The Woman Appealing To Elisha, He Raises Her Son From The Dead ( 2 Kings 4:18-37 ). One...
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...
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...
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...
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 philosophie...
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 4:1-12 TYPICAL MIRACLES WROUGHT BY ELISHA . General introduction . The miracles of this chapter are all of t...
The Shunammite's Son Restored to Life
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me? She did not state the cause of her bitterness outright, but Elisha co...
2 Kings 4:16 ; Genesis 30:1
She said — This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised, but was freely promised by...
28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?