21<\/strong>. she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God<\/em> ] Her thoughts at once go to Elisha and she puts the dead boy into the prophet’s chamber, perhaps with the thought that she will bring Elisha back with her, and then he will find the child at once. Or it may be that she felt there would be less fear of intruders there. This latter reason is supported by her further action of shutting the door. What hopes she may have had we can only conjecture, but she acts as though she believed that help was not impossible. ‘The good Shunammite hath lost her son, her faith she hath not lost’ (Bp Hall).<\/p>\n Verse 21<\/span>. Laid him on the bed of the man of God<\/B><\/I>] She had no doubt heard that Elijah had raised the widow’s son of Zarephath to life; and she believed that he who had obtained this gift from God for her, could obtain his restoration to life.<\/P> <\/p>\n Shut the door upon him; <\/B>partly in hopes that this might contribute something to the childs restitution to life, she having in all probability had an account of the like miracle done by Elijah, 1Ki 17:21<\/span>; and partly that she might for the present conceal the death of the child; which if it had been known, would have filled her husband with grief, and hindered her journey, and opened the mouths of the enemies of God and his prophets to blaspheme; whereas she had a confidence put into her by God, that the prophet could and would restore her son. <\/P> <\/p>\n And she went up<\/strong>,…. Into the little chamber built for the prophet:<\/p>\n and laid him on the bed of the man of God<\/strong>; not from any imagination of any virtue in it to bring her child to life; though she might think of the prophet, and have faith that he could raise it to life, as Elijah raised the widow of Zarephath’s son laid on his bed, of which she might have heard; but this being a private room, and into which none went, she laid it here to conceal its death from her husband and family, and to prevent grief, and that they might not bury it until she returned:<\/p>\n and shut the door upon him<\/strong>; that no creature might enter, and, do any damage to his corpse:<\/p>\n and went out<\/strong>; not out of the chamber, that she did before she shut the door, but out of the house.<\/p>\n (21) Laid him on the bed of the man of God.<\/strong>She wished to keep the death secret, and the corpse inviolate, during her intended absence.<\/p>\n 21<\/strong>. <\/strong> Laid him on the bed of the man of God <\/strong> She had probably heard how Elijah had raised the son of the widow of Zarephath to life. 1Ki 17:19<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2Ki 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.<\/p>\n Ver. 21. And laid him on the bed of the man of God.<\/strong> ] She had heard, belike, how Elijah had restored to life a widow’s dead child. 1Ki 17:21 This therefore that she here did was an act of her faith, whereby also she “received her dead raised to life again.” Heb 11:35 Faith is the best lever at a dead lift.<\/p>\n the bed: 2Ki 4:10, 1Ki 17:19<\/p>\n And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out. 21. she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God ] Her thoughts at once go to Elisha and she puts the dead boy into the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 4:21”<\/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-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","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=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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