列王纪下 4:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

書念婦人接待以利沙有一天，以利沙經過書念的時候，那裡有一位貴婦堅持留他吃飯；於是以後每逢他從那裡經過，他總進去吃飯。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
一 日 ， 以 利 沙 走 到 书 念 ， 在 那 里 有 一 个 大 户 的 妇 人 强 留 他 吃 饭 。 此 後 ， 以 利 沙 每 从 那 里 经 过 就 进 去 吃 饭 。

Contextual Overview

⁸ One day Elisha went to Shunem, where an important woman lived. She begged Elisha to stay and eat. So every time Elisha passed by, he stopped there to eat. ⁹ The woman said to her husband, "I know that this is a holy man of God who passes by our house all the time. ¹⁰ Let's make a small room on the roof and put a bed in the room for him. We can put a table, a chair, and a lampstand there. Then when he comes by, he can stay there." ¹¹ One day Elisha came to the woman's house. After he went to his room and rested, ¹² he said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite woman." When the servant had called her, she stood in front of him. ¹³ Elisha had told his servant, "Now say to her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak to the king or the commander of the army for you?'" She answered, "I live among my own people." ¹⁴ Elisha said to Gehazi, "But what can we do for her?" He answered, "She has no son, and her husband is old." ¹⁵ Then Elisha said to Gehazi, "Call her." When he called her, she stood in the doorway. ¹⁶ Then Elisha said, "About this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms." The woman said, "No, master, man of God, don't lie to me, your servant!" ¹⁷ But the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son at that time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it fell on: Heb. there was, 2 Kings 4:11, 2 Kings 4:18

Shunem: This city was situated in the tribe of Issachar, five miles south from mount Tabor, according to Eusebius; and is probably the place which he calls Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the neighbourhood of Samaria or Sebaste. 2 Kings 4:12, Joshua 19:18, 1 Samuel 28:4, 1 Kings 1:3

a great woman: 2 Samuel 19:32, Job 1:3, Job 32:9, Luke 1:15

she constrained him: Heb. she laid hold on him, Genesis 19:3, Judges 19:20, Proverbs 7:21, Luke 14:23, Luke 24:29, Acts 16:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:1 - turned 1 Samuel 28:23 - compelled him 2 Kings 5:1 - a great Psalms 107:39 - they are Matthew 10:41 - that receiveth a prophet Matthew 25:17 - he also Hebrews 13:2 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
Later, Cain brought some food from the ground as a gift to God.

Genesis 4:6
The Lord asked Cain, "Why are you angry? Why do you look so unhappy?

Genesis 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?"

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 4:15
The Lord said to Cain, "No! If anyone kills you, I will punish that person seven times more." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain warning anyone who met him not to kill him.

Genesis 4:24
If Cain's killer is punished seven times, then Lamech's killer will be punished seventy-seven times."

Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .

2 Samuel 3:27
When Abner arrived at Hebron, Joab took him aside into the gateway. He acted as though he wanted to talk with Abner in private, but Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and Abner died. Abner had killed Joab's brother Asahel, so Joab killed Abner to pay him back.

2 Samuel 14:6
I had two sons. They were out in the field fighting, and no one was there to stop them. So one son killed the other son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it fell on a day,.... Or so it was at a certain time:

that Elisha passed to Shunem; a city in the tribe of Issachar; of which see Joshua 19:18,

where was a great woman; of great wealth and riches, of great benevolence and hospitality, and of great grace and piety; that feared sin, as the Targum paraphrases it; a woman of great credit and reputation on all accounts. The Jews say u she was the sister of Abishag the Shunammite, and the mother of Iddo the prophet:

and she constrained him to eat bread; she had observed him at all times pass that way, and guessed by his habit and deportment that he was a religious man, and therefore took an opportunity to invite him into her house, and take a dinner with her; but he being modest and shy, she was obliged to use some pressing language, and be importunate with him, that he would accept of her invitation, which he did:

and so it was, that, as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread; being made very welcome, and encouraged by the free and kind entertainment he met with, as often as he had occasion to come that way, he called and took a meal with her; and this it seems was pretty often, for Shunem was not far from Carmel, which he frequented, and lay in the way to Samaria, Bethel, and Jericho, places he often visited, the schools of the prophets being there.

u T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 57. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And it fell on a day - The original of the expression here used, which occurs three times in the present narrative 2 Kings 4:11, 2 Kings 4:18, is also found in Job 1:6, Job 1:13; Job 2:1. The character of the expression perhaps supports the view that the author of Kings has collected from various sources his account of the miracles of Elisha, and has kept in each case the words of the original writer.

A great woman - That is, “a rich woman.” Compare 1 Samuel 25:2; 2 Samuel 19:32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:8. Elisha passed to Shunem — This city was in the tribe of Issachar, to the south of the brook Kishon, and at the foot of Mount Tabor.

Where was a great woman — In Pirkey Rab. Eliezer, this woman is said to have been the sister of Abishag, the Shunammite, well known in the history of David.

Instead of great woman, the Chaldee has, a woman fearing sin; the Arabic, a woman eminent for piety before God. This made her truly great.