2 Kings 4:27
When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
28Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
Cross References
Genesis 18:17And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
2 Samuel 7:3And Nathan replied to the king, “Go and do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
2 Kings 6:12But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
Matthew 20:31The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:19-38
The Death of the Shunammite's Son; The Shunammite's Son Restored. ( b. c. 887.) 18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. 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. 22 And she called unto her… Read the whole commentary →