{"id":9620,"date":"2022-09-24T03:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-45\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:09:28","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 4:5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 5<\/strong>. <em> who<\/em> [R.V. <strong> they<\/strong> ] <em> brought<\/em> the vessels <em> to her<\/em> ] The R.V. marks that the Hebrew here begins a new clause with a personal pronoun. The widow&rsquo;s unquestioning obedience, in which her sons also imitated her, has its reward.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>So she went from him<\/strong>,&#8230;. And did as he advised her, borrowed many empty vessels of her neighbours, having faith in what the prophet had said to her:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons<\/strong>; and then went to work as she was directed, with her sons:<\/p>\n<p><strong>who brought the vessels to her<\/strong>; the empty ones she had borrowed: and she poured out; the oil out of her pot into them.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(5) <strong>From him.<\/strong><em>Mitt<\/em>, the correct form. (Comp. <span class='bible'>2Ki. 3:11<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who brought . . . poured out.<\/strong>There should be a semicolon at sons. The rest is literally, <em>They were bringing to her, and she was pouring continually<\/em> (<em>myaqeth<\/em>, only here). She did not leave her pouring. The story is evidently abridged in this verse.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Ki 4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 5. <strong> And shut the door, &amp;c.<\/strong> ] This her prompt and present obedience was a noble fruit of her heroical faith. She doth not reason, as Naaman did, but run; she doth not dispute, but despatch the prophet&rsquo;s commands. God loveth <em> Curristas non Quaeristas,<\/em> saith Luther. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> And she poured out.<\/strong> ] And the more she poured out, the more she might; the angels making new supplies of oil continually, saith A Lapide.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>who brought = they bringing. <\/p>\n<p>she poured out. Elisha&#8217;s fifth miracle. See note on 2Ki 2:15. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>she went: 2Ki 5:11, 1Ki 17:15, 1Ki 17:16, Luk 1:45, Heb 11:7, Heb 11:8 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 7:16 &#8211; the<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out. 5. who [R.V. they ] brought the vessels to her ] The R.V. marks that the Hebrew here begins a new clause with a personal pronoun. The widow&rsquo;s unquestioning obedience, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-45\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 4:5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}