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2 Raja-raja 4:10

Baiklah kita membuat sebuah kamar atas yang kecil yang berdinding batu, dan baiklah kita menaruh di sana baginya sebuah tempat tidur, sebuah meja, sebuah kursi dan sebuah kandil, maka apabila ia datang kepada kita, ia boleh masuk ke sana."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - House;   Minister, Christian;   Shunammite;   Stool;   Table;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Counsel;   Home;   Ministry, Woman's;   Notable Women;   Woman's;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beds;   Candlestick;   Houses;   Liberality;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - House;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   House;   Lamp;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bed-Chamber;   Chamber;   Dwellings;   Shunem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bed;   House;   Meals;   Prophet;   Throne;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Furniture;   Hospitality;   House;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Stool;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Marriage;   Medicine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Candlestick;   Guest-Chamber;   House (2);   Stranger, Alien, Foreigner;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bed, Bedstead;   Shunammite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chamber;   Dwelling;   Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bed;   Eli'sha;   House;   Throne;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophets;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Candle;   Elisha;   Gehazi;   Stool;   Table;   Throne;   Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Candlestick;   Furniture, Household;   House;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Baiklah kita membuat sebuah kamar atas yang kecil yang berdinding batu, dan baiklah kita menaruh di sana baginya sebuah tempat tidur, sebuah meja, sebuah kursi dan sebuah kandil, maka apabila ia datang kepada kita, ia boleh masuk ke sana."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Baiklah kita memperbuat akan dia suatu alayat kecil dengan dindingnya, dan dalamnya kita taruh akan dia tempat tidur dan meja dan kursi dan kaki dian, supaya apabila ia singgah kepada kita kelak, bolehlah ia menumpang di situ.

Contextual Overview

8 And it fell on a day, that Elisa came to Sunem, where was a great woman, that toke him in for to eate bread: And so it came to passe, that from that tyme foorth (as oft as he came that way) he turned in thyther to eate bread. 9 And she saide vnto her husband: Beholde, I perceaue that this is an holy man of God which passeth by vs continually. 10 Let vs make him a litle chamber I pray thee, with walles, & let vs set him there a bed, and a table, and a stoole, and a candelsticke: that he may turne in thyther when he commeth to vs. 11 And it fortuned on a day that he came thither, and turned into the chamber, & lay therein, 12 And saide to Gehezi his seruaunt: Call this Sunamite. And when he called her, she presented her selfe before him. 13 And againe he said vnto him: Tel her, beholde thou hast ben carefull for vs with all this care, What shal we now do for thee? Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captayne of the hoast? She aunswered: I dwell among myne owne people. 14 And he said againe: What is to be done for her? Gehezi aunswered: Ueryly she hath no childe, and her husband is olde. 15 And he said: Call her. And when he had called her, she stoode in the doore. 16 And he saide: At this tyme appoynted, according to the tyme of lyfe, thou shalt imbrace a sonne. And she said: Oh nay my lorde thou man of God, do not lye vnto thyne handmayde. 17 And the wyfe conceaued, and bare a sonne that same season that Elisa had sayde vnto her, acording to the tyme of lyfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Let us: Isaiah 32:8, Matthew 10:41, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 25:40, Mark 9:41, Luke 8:3, Romans 12:13, Hebrews 10:24, Hebrews 13:2, 1 Peter 4:9, 1 Peter 4:10

a little chamber: An aleeyah, or oleah, as the Arabs call it; a small back house annexed to the principal dwelling, in which the prophet could live in a great privacy as in his own house, and to which he could retire at pleasure, without breaking in upon the private affairs of the family, or being in his turn interrupted by them in his devotions. See note on Judges 3:20, and see note on 1 Kings 17:19

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:21 - the bed Proverbs 31:11 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
Genesis 4:9
And the Lorde said vnto Cain: where is Habel thy brother? Which sayde I wote not: Am I my brothers keper?
Genesis 4:10
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lyues wyl I require: at the hande of euery beast wyll I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hande of mans brother wyll I require the life of man.
Genesis 18:20
And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:
Exodus 3:7
And the Lorde saide: I haue surely seene the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie from the face of their taske maisters: for I knowe their sorowes,
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the lande whiche ye shall dwell in, for blood defileth the lande: and the lande can not be clensed of the blood that is shed therin, but by the blood of hym that shed blood.
Joshua 7:19
And Iosuah sayde vnto Achan: My sonne, I beseche thee geue glorie to the Lorde God of Israel, and make confession vnto him, and shewe me what thou hast done, hyde it not from me.
2 Kings 9:26
I haue seene yesterday the blood of Naboth & the blood of his sonnes, sayde the Lord: and I wil quite it thee in this ground sayth the Lord. Nowe therfore take [him] and cast him in the plat of ground, according to ye word of the Lord.
Job 16:18
O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no roome.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall,.... Either of the city, to which their house might join, or of their garden, a little distance from the house; though the Jewish writers commonly understand it of a little edifice built up of walls of stone or bricks, and not one with reeds, or stud and mud:

let us set for him there a bed; that he may stay all night when he pleases:

and a table; not only to eat his food, but to write on, and lay his books on he reads. Of the table of a scholar of the wise men, in later times, we are told t, that two thirds of it were covered with a cloth, and the other third was uncovered, on which stood the plates and the herbs:

and a stool; to sit upon at table:

and a candlestick; with a candle in it, to light him in the night to read by, and the like:

and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither; where he would be free from the noise of the house, and be more retired for prayer, reading, meditation, and study, and not be disturbed with the servants of the family, and be mixed with them; all this she contrived, both for his honour, and for his quietness and peace.

t Pirke Eliezer, c. 33.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A little chamber on the wall - The room probably projected like a balcony beyond the lower apartments - an arrangement common in the East.

A stool - Rather, “a chair.” The “chair” and “table,” unusual in the sleeping-rooms of the East, indicate that the prophet was expected to use his apartment for study and retirement, not only as a sleeping-chamber.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:10. Let us make a little chamberJudges 1:3:20. As the woman was convinced that Elisha was a prophet, she knew that he must have need of more privacy than the general state of her house could afford; and therefore she proposes what she knew would be a great acquisition to him, as he could live in this little chamber in as much privacy as if he were in his own house. The bed, the table, the stool, and the candlestick, were really every thing he could need, by way of accommodation, in such circumstances.


 
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