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2 Kings 4:9 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 4 · verse 9
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.2 Kings 4:9 · King James Version
2 Kings 4:9 in context
7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
8And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
9And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
10Let 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.
11And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- continuallytâmîydproperly, continuanceH8548 →
- perceiveyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- husbandʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
- passethʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- holyqâdôwshsacredH6918 →
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The giving of a son to such as were old, and had been long childless, was an ancient instance of the divine power and favour, in the case of Abraham, and Isaac, and Manoah, and Elkanah; we find it here among the wonders wrought by Elisha.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-17