2 Kings 4:14-24

14 And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.
15 Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door,
16 He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour that Eliseus had said.
18 And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,
19 He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.
21 And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,
22 She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
23 And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.
24 And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.

2 Kings 4:14-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 4

This chapter treats of the miracles of Elisha, of his multiplying a poor widow's pot of oil for the payment of her husband's debts, 2Ki 4:1-7 of obtaining a son for a Shunamitish woman, who had been very hospitable to him, 2Ki 4:8-17, of his raising up her son to life when dead, 2Ki 4:18-37, of his curing the deadly pottage made of wild gourds, 2Ki 4:38-41, and of his feeding one hundred men with twenty barley loaves, 2Ki 4:42-44.

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