2 Kings 4:8-10

4:8

day <03117> [it fell on. Heb. there was.]

Shunem <07766> [Shunem.]

This city was situated in the tribe of Issachar, five miles south from mount Tabor, according to Eusebius; and is probably the place which he calls Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the neighbourhood of Samaria or Sebaste.

prominent woman <0802 01419> [a great woman.]

insisted ....... meal ............... meal <02388 0398> [she constrained him. Heb. she laid hold on him.]

4:9

said <0559> [she said.]

special <06918> [this is.]

husband ................. prophet <0376 0430> [man of God.]

4:10

make ........ furnish <06213 07760> [Let us.]

small ... upper room <06996 05944> [a little chamber.]

An {ƒleeyah,} or {ole„h,} as the Arabs call it; a small back house annexed to the principal dwelling, in which the prophet could live in a great privacy as in his own house, and to which he could retire at pleasure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions. See the notes on Jud 3:20.