Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 4:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 4:1 - 4:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 4:1 - 4:1

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:6 - 4:6
4:8 - 4:8
4:10 - 4:10
4:13 - 4:13
4:18 - 4:18
4:19 - 4:19
4:22 - 4:22
4:24 - 4:24
4:26 - 4:26
4:29 - 4:29
4:34 - 4:34
4:35 - 4:35
4:38 - 4:38
4:39 - 4:39
4:42 - 4:42
4:43 - 4:43

2Ki 4:1-7. Elisha augments the widow’s oil.

there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets - They were allowed to marry as well as the priests and Levites. Her husband, not enjoying the lucrative profits of business, had nothing but a professional income, which, in that irreligious age, would be precarious and very scanty, so that he was not in a condition to provide for his family.

the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen - By the enactment of the law, a creditor was entitled to claim the person and children of the insolvent debtor, and compel them to serve him as bondmen till the year of jubilee should set them free.