列王纪下 4:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他說：“為甚麼你要在今天去見他呢？今天既不是月朔，也不是安息日。”她說：“一切都平安。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
丈 夫 说 ： 今 日 不 是 月 朔 ， 也 不 是 安 息 日 ， 你 为 何 要 去 见 他 呢 ？ 妇 人 说 ： 平 安 无 事 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ The boy grew up and one day went out to his father, who was with the grain harvesters. ¹⁹ The boy said to his father, "My head! My head!" The father said to his servant, "Take him to his mother!" ²⁰ The servant took him to his mother, and he lay on his mother's lap until noon. Then he died. ²¹ So she took him up and laid him on Elisha's bed. Then she shut the door and left. ²² She called to her husband, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. Then I can go quickly to the man of God and return." ²³ The husband said, "Why do you want to go to him today? It isn't the New Moon or the Sabbath day." She said, "It will be all right." ²⁴ Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Lead on. Don't slow down for me unless I tell you." ²⁵ So she went to Elisha, the man of God, at Mount Carmel. When he saw her coming from far away, he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, there's the Shunammite woman! ²⁶ Run to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is the boy all right?'" She answered, "Everything is all right." ²⁷ Then she came to Elisha at the hill and grabbed his feet. Gehazi came near to pull her away, but Elisha said to him, "Leave her alone. She's very upset, and the Lord has not told me about it. He has hidden it from me."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

new moon: Numbers 10:10, Numbers 28:11, 1 Chronicles 23:31, Isaiah 1:13-15

well: Heb. peace, 2 Kings 4:26

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:5 - the new moon Psalms 74:8 - all the synagogues Psalms 81:3 - new Proverbs 31:11 - General Isaiah 66:23 - that from Amos 8:5 - When Colossians 2:16 - the new

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
"You must not murder anyone.

Leviticus 19:18
Forget about the wrong things people do to you, and do not try to get even. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am the Lord .

Numbers 23:18
Then Balaam gave this message: "Stand up, Balak, and listen. Hear me, son of Zippor.

Judges 9:7
When Jotham heard this, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He shouted to the people: "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, so that God will listen to you!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, wherefore wilt thou go to him today?.... What reason is there for it? what is the meaning of it?

it is neither new moon nor sabbath; neither the first day of the month, nor the seventh day of the week, times which were religiously observed; so with the Heathens the new moon and the seventh of the week, and so the fourth, were sacred u; which notions they borrowed from the Jews,

:- and when, it seems, it was usual to frequent the house of the prophet, to hear the word of God read and explained, and other religious exercises performed, as praying and singing praise, and receiving some good instructions and advice. Joseph Kimchi gives a different sense of these words:

"there is not a month past, no, not a week, since thou sawest him;''

why therefore shouldest thou be in such haste to go to him? so the words for new moon and sabbath may signify:

and she said, it shall be well; it was right for her to go, and it would be well for him and her, and the family; or, "peace" w, be easy and quiet, farewell: it is much he had no mistrust of the death of the child, or that it was worse, since it went from him ill.

u Hesiod. Opera & Dies, l. 2. w שלום "pax", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Her husband did not connect the illness with his wife’s demand, but thought she wished to attend one of the prophet’s devotional services. It is evident that such services were now held with something like regularity on Carmel for the benefit of the faithfull in those parts.

New moon - By the Law the first day of each month was to be kept holy. Offerings were appointed for such occasions Numbers 28:11-15, and they were among the days on which the silver trumpets were to be blown Numbers 10:10; Psalms 81:3. Hence, “new moons” are frequently joined with “sabbaths” (see Isaiah 1:13; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11; 1 Chronicles 23:31).

It shall be well - Rather, as in the margin, “Peace.” i. e., “Be quiet - trouble me not with inquiries - only let me do as I wish.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:23. Wherefore wilt thou go — She was a very prudent woman; she would not harass the feelings of her husband by informing him of the death of his son till she had tried the power of the prophet. Though the religion of the true God was not the religion of the state, yet there were no doubt multitudes of the people who continued to worship the true God alone, and were in the habit of going, as is here intimated, on new moons and Sabbaths, to consult the prophet.