2 Kings 4:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out. She went in and fell at his feet - Few can enter into the feelings of this noble woman. What suspense must she have felt during the time that the prophet was employed in the slow process referred to above! for slow in its own nature it must have been, and exceedingly exhausting to the prophet himself.