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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 4:31 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 4:31 |
King James |
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
There was neither voice nor hearing - Compare Kg1 18:29.
The child is not awakened - See Kg2 4:20. The euphemism by which death is spoken of as a sleep was already familiar to the Jews (see Kg1 1:21 note). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Neither voice - Neither speech, nor sense, nor any sign of life, in the child. This disappointment might proceed from hence, that Elisha having changed his mind, and yielded to her importunity to go with her, did alter his course, and not join his fervent prayers with Gehazi's action. Not awaked - Not revived. |
21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.