28<\/strong>. Did I desire a son<\/em> ] The words are almost reproachful and make it clear to the prophet that the child is dead. Better had it been for her not to have had the child given to her, than now to have the great sorrow of losing him.<\/p>\n Do not deceive me<\/em> ] She does not use the stronger term which occurs in the earlier part of the narrative (verse 16).<\/p>\n Great grief shrinks from putting itself into words. The Shunammite cannot bring herself to say, My son is dead; but by reproaching the prophet with having deceived her, she sufficiently indicates her loss.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 28. Did I desire a son of my lord?<\/B><\/I>] I expressed no such wish to thee; I was contented and happy; and when thou didst promise me a son, did I not say, Do not deceive me<\/I>? Do not mock me with a child which shall grow up to be attractive and engaging, but of whom I shall soon be deprived by death.<\/P> <\/p>\n This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised, as Rachel was, Gen 30:1<\/span>, compared with Gen 35:18<\/span>; but was freely promised to me by thee in Gods name, and from his special grace and favour; and therefore I trust both thou didst pray for it, and God design it as a blessing, and not as an affliction, as now it proves, unless thou dost obtain the child for me a second time, which I know thou canst do, and I humbly beg thee to do. <\/P> Do not deceive me, <\/B>with vain hopes of a comfort that I should never have? And I had been much happier if I had never had it, than to lose it so quickly. Therefore thou art in some measure concerned to revive my dead hopes, and to continue to me the great blessing which thou hast procured. <\/P> <\/p>\n Then she said, did I desire a son of my lord<\/strong>?…. It was not at her request she had one, at least the first motion was not from her; the prophet first told her, and assured her she should have one, without her asking for it; she might be pleased with it, and desire the promise might be fulfilled; but it was not an inordinate, importunate, desire of one, in which she had exceeded, that so the taking it away from her might be a correction of her for it:<\/p>\n did I not say, do not deceive me<\/strong>; by giving hopes of a child, and yet have none; and now it was equally the same, or worse, to have one, and then to have it taken away again as soon as had almost; so the Targum,<\/p>\n “did I not say unto thee, if a child is given me, let it live, if not, do not trouble or grieve me;”<\/p>\n and then, no doubt, she told him plainly the child was dead, and where she had laid it, though not recorded.<\/p>\n (28) Then.<\/strong>And<\/em>; so in 2Ki. 4:29<\/span>; 2Ki. 4:35<\/span>.<\/p>\n Did I desire<\/strong> (ask<\/em>) a son of my lord?<\/strong>Only the conclusion of her appeal is given. She says, Better to have had no son, than to have had one and lost him. The opposite of our poets<\/p>\n Tis better to have loved and lost,<\/p>\n Than never to have loved at all.<\/p>\n But this last is the fruit of reflection; her<\/em> words are the spontaneous outflow of a mothers poignant sorrow. Or, perhaps, we should understand that grief does not allow her to specify the cause directly; she leaves the prophet to infer that<\/em> from her questions.<\/p>\n 28<\/strong>. <\/strong> Did I desire a son of my lord <\/strong> She speaks the emotional language of one that is bewildered with a sudden sorrow. So far as appears from what is here written, she did not relate the fact of the child’s death, but left him to infer it from the language of her grief, or learn it by special Divine revelation. But we need not assume that all she said to Elisha is here written.<\/p>\n 2Ki 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?<\/p>\n Ver. 28. Did I desire a son of my lord?<\/strong> ] Was I too desirous, or unduly importunate? for if so, the loss of the child had been just upon me. Strong affections will be strong afflictions. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Did I not say, Do not deceive me?<\/strong> ] Nay, did not you say, Do not lie to me? And was that a fit word to a man of God? was there not something of unbelief in it?<\/p>\n deceive = cajole. <\/p>\n Did I desire: Gen 30:1 <\/p>\n Do not: 2Ki 4:16 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ki 8:12 – my Lord Job 7:11 – the anguish Act 9:38 – desiring<\/p>\n 2Ki 4:28. She said, Did I desire a son of my lord? This child was not given to me upon my immoderate desire, for which I might have justly been thus chastised; but was freely promised to me by thee in Gods name, and from his special grace and favour. Did not I say, Do not deceive me? With vain hopes of a comfort that I should never have. And I had been much happier if I had never had it, than to lose it so quickly.<\/p>\n Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? 28. Did I desire a son ] The words are almost reproachful and make it clear to the prophet that the child is dead. 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