1 Kings 17:19; 2 Kings 4:10
Elisha and the Shunammite Woman. This gives one of the most delightful pictures of rural life in ancient Israel. It describes the kindly hospitalit...
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. Laid him on the bed of the man of God - She h...
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Various Miracles of Elisha The miracles related of Elisha in this and the following Chapter s resemble many of those previously recounted of Elija...
Laid him on the bed of the man of God. — She wished to keep the death secret, and the corpse inviolate, during her intended absence.
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...
Entertaining a Prophet 2 Kings 4:8-24 The real man needs a very small supply of outward comfort, because his life is hid in God. It does not co...
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...
What an unexpected event was this? Who would have thought that a child unasked, and given at the instance of the prophet's prayer, should be thus soo...
And she went up ,.... Into the little chamber built for the prophet: and laid him on the bed of the man of God ; not from any imagination of any v...
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out. Ver. 21. And laid him on the bed of the ma...
He went out to his father to the reapers Either for pleasure, or with some message to him. He said to his father, My head, my head! A more than c...
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....
Shut the door upon him; partly in hopes that this might contribute something to the child's restitution to life, she having in all probability had...
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
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, intending to keep his death secret for awhile, at least until she had started on her trip,...
Bed of the man of God — Being apt to believe, he that so soon took away what he had given, would restore what he had taken away. By this faith wome...
21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.