# 2 Kings 04 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[2 Kings Overview]] | [[2 Kings 03]] | [[2 Kings 05]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons [[#Verse 01.]] Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”  [[#Verse 02.]] Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”  [[#Verse 03.]] He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.  [[#Verse 04.]] Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it.”  [[#Verse 05.]] So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil. [[#Verse 06.]] When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.  [[#Verse 07.]] She went and told the prophet. He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.” ### Elisha Gives Life to a Boy [[#Verse 08.]] One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal. [[#Verse 09.]] She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.  [[#Verse 10.]] Let’s make a small, private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.” [[#Verse 11.]] One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.  [[#Verse 12.]] He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” So he did so and she came to him.  [[#Verse 13.]] Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”  [[#Verse 14.]] So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”  [[#Verse 15.]] Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.  [[#Verse 16.]] He said, “About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”  [[#Verse 17.]] The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her. [[#Verse 18.]] The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.  [[#Verse 19.]] He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”  [[#Verse 20.]] So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.  [[#Verse 21.]] She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.  [[#Verse 22.]] She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.” [[#Verse 23.]] He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.”  [[#Verse 24.]] She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.” [[#Verse 25.]] So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.  [[#Verse 26.]] Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, “Everything’s fine.”  [[#Verse 27.]] But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”  [[#Verse 28.]] She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’” [[#Verse 29.]] Elisha told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child’s face.” [[#Verse 30.]] The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back. [[#Verse 31.]] Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him, “The child did not wake up.”  [[#Verse 32.]] When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.  [[#Verse 33.]] He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the Lord.  [[#Verse 34.]] He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. As he bent down across him, the boy’s skin grew warm.  [[#Verse 35.]] Elisha went back and walked around in the house. Then he got up on the bed again and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.  [[#Verse 36.]] Elisha called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.”  [[#Verse 37.]] She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left. ### Elisha Makes a Meal Edible [[#Verse 38.]] Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was a famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.”  [[#Verse 39.]] Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.  [[#Verse 40.]] The stew was poured out for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.  [[#Verse 41.]] He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot. ### Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People [[#Verse 42.]] Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet—twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”  [[#Verse 4r3]] But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord has said, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”  [[#Verse 44.]] So he set it before them; they ate and had some left over, just as in the Lord’s message. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes