10<\/strong>. Let us make<\/em> ] The R.V. brings ‘I pray thee’ to follow these words according to the Hebrew order.<\/p>\n a little chamber on the wall<\/em> ] The Hebrew might mean either a chamber with a wall, a walled room, in contradistinction to one built of wood, or a building above the usual roof of the house and so supported by the walls. The latter seems to be the sense required here, for it is said (verse 21) that the mother went up<\/em> when she wished to lay the dead child upon the prophet’s bed. As the roofs of Eastern houses can be reached by a staircase from outside, a chamber on the housetop (cf. Pro 21:9<\/span>; Pro 25:24<\/span>) would furnish the sort of privacy which Elisha would desire. He could also thus come in and go out without being mixed up with the movements of the household.<\/p>\n a bed<\/em> ] The articles here named form the proper furniture of an Eastern room, where a superabundance of such articles is nowhere found.<\/p>\n a stool<\/em> ] The word is that which is often rendered ‘throne’, and it probably in this case means the couch or divan which runs along the wall of an Eastern dwelling-room.<\/p>\n he shall turn in<\/em> ] The verb, which is the same as in verse 8, is that which Lot employs (Gen 19:2<\/span>) in his invitation to the two angels. Preparation was made so that the prophet and his servant might be at rest, and come and go when they pleased. As a halting place in a long journey it would be very acceptable.<\/p>\n A little chamber on the wall – <\/B>The room probably projected like a balcony beyond the lower apartments – an arrangement common in the East.<\/P> A stool – <\/B>Rather, a chair. The chair and table, unusual in the sleeping-rooms of the East, indicate that the prophet was expected to use his apartment for study and retirement, not only as a sleeping-chamber.<\/P> <\/p>\n 2Ki 4:10<\/span><\/p>\n Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The little chamber on the wall<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Considerateness is the first. There <\/strong>was evidently a thoughtful and respectful considerateness in the way this gift was offered to Elisha. Another word surely we can see in this little room, if we look–the word,<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Simplicity. Nothing, in its way, could be simpler than this room and its furniture. A bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick. Of course this chamber was only for a passing traveller and not for a permanent resident. But how easy it is to make a grand display for a passing traveller! Monarchs have been known before now to impoverish some noble families by accepting from them a munificence of hospitality beyond their means. And should we be wrong in supposing that the simplicity of this one chamber is, after all, but the expression of a simplicity that reigned through the whole house of this good woman in Shunem? How many things, said Socrates, there are which I do not need! How many things there are, which, although we do need them a little, we can yet do very well without! Here is a bed, and that meets the need of almost one-third of our whole time here on earth. Here is a table, and that meets the need–for intellectual persons, for commercial men, and for some workmen–of another third of our time. If I am neither sleeping, working, nor eating, and yet am detained in-doors, I cannot stand all day; well, here is a stool to sit on and think, or think of nothing. Year in and out, there are twelve hours of dark to pass through,–well, here is a candlestick, or lamp, with oil in it–light it, and let it burn. And so we are at the end of the inventory! Beautiful simplicity! There is just one word more I want you to decipher, and that is the word,<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Contentment. The whole history of this chamber shows that an unusual contentment reigned in this home. If the inmates had been <\/strong>dissatisfied or ambitious, here is a fine opportunity to advance themselves. The very ladder of elevation comes within their reach. A word from the prophet would set <\/strong>them almost anywhere. (A. Raleigh, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Verse 10<\/span>. Let us make a little chamber<\/B><\/I>] See Clarke on Jdg 3<\/span>:20<\/span><\/span>. As the woman was convinced that Elisha was a prophet, she knew that he must have need of more privacy than the general state of her house could afford; and therefore she proposes what she knew would be a great acquisition to him, as he could live in this little chamber in as much privacy as if he were in his own house. The bed<\/I>, the table<\/I>, the stool<\/I>, and the candlestick<\/I>, were really every thing he could need, by way of accommodation, in such circumstances.<\/P> <\/p>\n Let us make a little chamber on the wall, <\/B>that he may be free from the noise of family business, and enjoy that privacy which, I perceive, he desireth for his prayers and meditations. He will not be troublesome or chargeable to us; he cares not for rich furniture or costly entertainment, and is content with bare necessaries. <\/P> <\/p>\n 10. Let us make a little chamber<\/B>notbuild, but prepare it. She meant a room in the oleah,<\/I> theporch, or gateway (2Sa 18:33<\/span>;1Ki 17:19<\/span>), attached to the frontof the house, leading into the court and inner apartments. The frontof the house, excepting the door, is a dead wall, and hence this roomis called a chamber in the wall. It is usually appropriated to theuse of strangers, or lodgers for a night, and, from its seclusion,convenient for study or retirement.<\/P><\/p>\n Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall<\/strong>,…. Either of the city, to which their house might join, or of their garden, a little distance from the house; though the Jewish writers commonly understand it of a little edifice built up of walls of stone or bricks, and not one with reeds, or stud and mud:<\/p>\n let us set for him there a bed<\/strong>; that he may stay all night when he pleases:<\/p>\n and a table<\/strong>; not only to eat his food, but to write on, and lay his books on he reads. Of the table of a scholar of the wise men, in later times, we are told t, that two thirds of it were covered with a cloth, and the other third was uncovered, on which stood the plates and the herbs:<\/p>\n and a stool<\/strong>; to sit upon at table:<\/p>\n and a candlestick<\/strong>; with a candle in it, to light him in the night to read by, and the like:<\/p>\n and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither<\/strong>; where he would be free from the noise of the house, and be more retired for prayer, reading, meditation, and study, and not be disturbed with the servants of the family, and be mixed with them; all this she contrived, both for his honour, and for his quietness and peace.<\/p>\n t Pirke Eliezer, c. 33.<\/p>\n (<\/em>10)<\/em> A little chamber . . . on the wall.<\/strong>Rather, a little upper chamber<\/em> (alyh<\/em>) with walls<\/em>i.e.<\/em>, a chamber on the roof of the house, walled on each side as a protection against the weather. (Comp. 1Ki. 17:19<\/span>.) Here the prophet would be secure from all interruption or intrusion on his privacy, and so would be likely to honour the house longer with his presence.<\/p>\n A bed.<\/strong>The four things mentioned are the only essentials in Oriental furnishing.<\/p>\n A stool.<\/strong>A chair of state.<\/em> The same word means throne.<\/p>\n Candlestick.<\/strong>Lamp-stand<\/em>. 10<\/strong>. <\/strong> Little chamber on the wall <\/strong> An aliyah, <\/em> the most desirable and best fitted up room of an Eastern house. See note on 1Ki 17:19<\/span>. An upper chamber would be more retired than any other part of the house, and therefore especially appropriate for a prophet. <\/p>\n Bed table stool candlestick <\/strong> Every accommodation for his convenience and comfort.<\/p>\n The room was accordingly occupied at convenient times by the prophet and his attendant servant.<\/p>\n 2Ki 4:10<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Let us make a little chamberon the wall, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> See the note on Jdg 3:20<\/span>. The little chamber <\/em>here spoken of, to which Elisha retired at his leisure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions, seems to have been of the like nature and contrivance with the oleahs, <\/em>or back-houses, mentioned in that note. <\/p>\n 2Ki 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.<\/p>\n Ver. 10. Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall.<\/strong> ] Where he may be privately, and without disturbance. She knew the tumult of a large family, unfit for the quiet meditations of a prophet; retiredness is most meet for the thoughts of a seer.<\/p>\n chamber = upper chamber, or wall-chamber. <\/p>\n candlestick = lampstand. Very little furniture used in the East to-day. <\/p>\n Let us: Isa 32:8, Mat 10:41, Mat 10:42, Mat 25:40, Mar 9:41, Luk 8:3, Rom 12:13, Heb 10:24, Heb 13:2, 1Pe 4:9, 1Pe 4:10 <\/p>\n a little chamber: An aleeyah, or oleah, as the Arabs call it; a small back house annexed to the principal dwelling, in which the prophet could live in a great privacy as in his own house, and to which he could retire at pleasure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions. See note on Jdg 3:20, and see note on 1Ki 17:19 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ki 4:21 – the bed Pro 31:11 – General<\/p>\n 4:10 Let us make a {h} little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.<\/p>\n (h) Which would be separate from the rest of the house, that he might more conveniently give himself to study and prayers.<\/p>\n Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. 10. Let us make ] The R.V. brings ‘I pray … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 4:10”<\/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-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","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=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>How did this little chamber come to be? It originated in the quick and clear perception of this woman of Shunem. I perceive, she said to her husband, that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. I dont know that any very unusual faculty of perception was necessary for this. A much inferior person might have made the same observation as she made, but few would have made it in the same sense, and with the same fulness of meaning. What is said in one of the psalms, of the gods of the heathen, is <\/strong>true of too many human creatures. They have eyes, but they see not. They see the mere forms of things but not the inhering, underlying substance. They see the outward movements of things, but not the inward significance. And suppose different people looking out of the window; will they all see alike? We know they will not. Why, there are some people who could see the same persons pass for year after year and never make an inference. They have their own reasons, no doubt, for passing and repassing–what is that to me? There are other people who could not see them pass many days without having certain conjectures about them, and beginning to take an interest in them; we mean not the barren interest of a mere curiosity, which is common enough, but the deeper concern of the heart. That little boy is in a situation, for he passes the window daily at the same time. This woman who is going by is paler day by day, and wears sorrow on her face. Perhaps she has some great home care. Or she is brighter and happier, things are better with her. The perceiving, the observing eye, is the gate of knowledge, the quickener of sympathy, the informer <\/strong>to benevolence. It brings before the benevolent heart the material on which it can act. It is at least the hewer of wood and the drawer of water to nobler faculties than itself.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Immediate action is taken. This action gives expression to the good impulse which attended so very closely on the quick perception. Let us make a little chamber. There is a pleasure in seeing, simply as seeing. It is <\/strong>good to know men and things somewhat correctly; but the higher pleasure is later born, and is always associated with doing and with duty. And these two pleasures God hath joined together, although men are always rending them asunder. And so men, looking at the same things, take different courses. From the same point apparently they diverge–one along the pathway of duty and activity and helpfulness; and another by a shorter circuit, back again idly to the post of observation. Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it. Make your little chamber, whatever it be, for helpfulness to others, as long as help can be given in that way.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Do not think of these duties of helpfulness as involving great exertion, or very considerable expenditure of time or money. It is not so. It is even in some cases very much the reverse, as in this case of the good Shunammite. Her gift, after all, is very simple, and to herself and her husband very inexpensive. And yet I think I see something on the walls–one, two, three inscriptions at any rate are there–only a single word in each. Now we dont need this famous room for rest or for writing, but we do need it very much for some higher purpose. Let us stay in it for a very little time until we can read together these inscriptions.<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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