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2 Rois 4:28

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28 Alors elle dit: Avais-je demandé un fils à mon seigneur? Ne te dis-je pas: Ne fais point que je sois trompée?

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2 Rois 4:28 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:28

Then she said, did I desire a son of my lord?
&c.] 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:

did I not say, do not deceive me;
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,

``did I not say unto thee, if a child is given me, let it live, if not, do not trouble or grieve me;''

and then, no doubt, she told him plainly the child was dead, and where she had laid it, though not recorded.
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2 Rois 4:28 In-Context

26 Va, cours au-devant d'elle, et dis-lui: Tout va-t-il bien pour toi, pour ton mari, pour l'enfant? Et elle dit: Bien.
27 Puis elle vint vers l'homme de Dieu sur la montagne, et embrassa ses pieds. Et Guéhazi s'approcha pour la repousser; mais l'homme de Dieu lui dit: Laisse-la, car son âme est dans l'amertume; et l'Éternel me l'a caché, et ne me l'a point déclaré.
28 Alors elle dit: Avais-je demandé un fils à mon seigneur? Ne te dis-je pas: Ne fais point que je sois trompée?
29 Et il dit à Guéhazi: Ceins tes reins; prends mon bâton en ta main, et t'en va. Si tu rencontres quelqu'un, ne le salue point; et si quelqu'un te salue, ne lui réponds pas; ensuite tu mettras mon bâton sur le visage de l'enfant.
30 Mais la mère de l'enfant dit: L'Éternel est vivant et ton âme est vivante! je ne te laisserai point. Et il se leva, et la suivit.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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