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All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But how admirably does the prudent, pious mother, guard her lips under this sudden affliction! Not one peevish word escapes from her.
What does 2 Kings 4:23 mean? Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible.
2 Kings 4. Great service Elisha had done, in the foregoing chapter, for the three kings: to his prayers and prophecies they owed their lives and triumphs.
1. (2 Kings 4:1-7) Provision for a widow. A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.” So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you?
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David Guzik's commentary on 2 Kings Chapter 4, where the Lord God of Israel worked impressive miracles through Elisha the prophet.
Here we have the trial of a first bereavement (2 Kings 4:18). 1. It was the bereavement of an only son. It was not only the loss of a child, but of the only child, and that child the son and heir—a child sent as a special and unlooked-for gift of heaven, as of one “born out of due time.”
