2 Kings 4:17

Time of life — See Genesis 18:10 on Genesis 18:10.

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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 hospitalit...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

of life, or of spring. Read "that season about the time of spring of which Klisha had said unto her". The sixth miracle. Compare 2 Kings 2:15 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. No JFB commentary on the...
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 Elija...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the woman conceived. — Comp. with this verse Genesis 21:2 . Said. — Promised. According to the time of life. — See Note on 2 Kings 4:...
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 illus...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

In order to have a clear conception of the great earnestness manifested among all the Israelites for children, it should be remembered that this was...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the woman conceived, and bare a son at the season that Elisha said unto her ,.... Quickly after this she conceived, and became pregnant, and by...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. Ver. 17. And the woman concei...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

About this season, according to the time of life About this time next year; see on Genesis 18:10 ; thou shall embrace a son She had received thi...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Shunammite's Hospitality. B. C. 893. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2). Elisha Seeks To Demonstrate His Gratitude And Promises Her A Son Even Though Her Husband Is Old, And A Son Is Duly Born ( 2 Kings 4:11-17 ). A...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 4:8 . Shunem , in the plain of Esdraelon, at the base of Little Hermon, now Sulam . 2 Kings 4:10 ....
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...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem. Hospitality In these verses there are two very interesting subjects, and of a practical char...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Elisha and the Shunammite
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And the woman conceived and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. In this way did the Lord reward t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 1:19 ; 1 Samuel 1:20 ; Genesis 21:1 ; Hebrews 11:11 ; Luke 1:24 ; Luke 1:25 ; Luke 1:36 ; Psalms 113:9

¹⁷ And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

Related Commentaries of 2 Kings 4:17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 4:17