2 Kings 4:34-44

4:34

4:35

[to and fro. Heb. once hither and once thither. and the child opened.]

4:36

called ........ Shunammite <07121 07767> [Call this Shunammite.]

Take <05375> [Take up.]

4:37

fell .... feet <07272 05307> [fell at his feet.]

4:38

Elisha <0477> [Elisha.]

famine <07458> [a dearth.]

<01121> [the sons.]

visiting <03427> [were sitting.]

Put ... big pot on <08239 01419 05518> [Set on the great pot.]

4:39

field ......... wild vine ....... fruit <07704 01612> [a wild vine.]

field ......... wild ........ fruit <06498 07704> [wild gourds.]

The word {pakk“th,} from {peka,} in Chaldee, to burst, and in Syriac, to crack, thunder, is generally supposed to be the fruits of the coloquintida, or colocynth; whose leaves are large, placed alternately, very much like those of the vine, whence it might be called a wild vine: the flowers are white, and the fruit of the gourd kind, of the size of a large apple, and when ripe, of a yellow colour, and a pleasant and inviting appearance. It ranks among vegetable poisons, as all intense bitters do; but, judiciously employed, it is of considerable use in medicine. It is said that the fruit, when ripe, is so full of wind that it bursts, and throws its liquor and seeds to a great distance: and if touched, before it breaks of itself, it flies open with an explosion, and discharges its foetid contents in the face of him who touched it.

4:40

men .................... prophet <0376> [O thou.]

Death <04194> [death.]

4:41

threw <07993> [he cast.]

anything <01697> [there.]

anything <01697> [harm. Heb. evil thing.]

4:42

Baal Shalisha <01190> [Baal-shalisha.]

food ...... loaves of bread <03899> [bread.]

barley <08184> [of barley.]

said <06861 0559> [the husk thereof. or, his scrip, or garment.]

Note: Parched corn, or corn to be parched; full ears before they are ripe, parched on the fire: a very frequent food in the East. The loaves were probably extremely small, as their loaves of bread still are in eastern countries. But small as this may appear, it would be a considerable present in the time of famine; though very inadequate to the number of persons. Baal-shalisha, of which the person who made this seasonable present was an inhabitant, was situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, fifteen miles north of Diospolis, or Lydda.

4:43

attendant <08334> [his servitor.]

I .......... Set it <05414> [What.]

eat ........... eat <0398> [They shall eat.]