2 Raja-raja 4:28

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka sembah perempuan itu: Adakah sahaya sudah minta seorang anak kepada tuan? Bukankah kata sahaya begini: Jangan apalah tuan mendustai sahaya?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah perempuan itu: "Adakah kuminta seorang anak laki-laki dari pada tuanku? Bukankah telah kukatakan: Jangan aku diberi harapan kosong?"

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lalu berkatalah perempuan itu: "Adakah kuminta seorang anak laki-laki dari pada tuanku? Bukankah telah kukatakan: Jangan aku diberi harapan kosong?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Did I desire: Genesis 30:1

Do not: 2 Kings 4:16

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:12 - my Lord Job 7:11 - the anguish Acts 9:38 - desiring

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then she said, did I desire a son of my lord?.... It was not at her request she had one, at least the first motion was not from her; the prophet first told her, and assured her she should have one, without her asking for it; she might be pleased with it, and desire the promise might be fulfilled; but it was not an inordinate, importunate, desire of one, in which she had exceeded, that so the taking it away from her might be a correction of her for it:

did I not say, do not deceive me; by giving hopes of a child, and yet have none; and now it was equally the same, or worse, to have one, and then to have it taken away again as soon as had almost; so the Targum,

"did I not say unto thee, if a child is given me, let it live, if not, do not trouble or grieve me;''

and then, no doubt, she told him plainly the child was dead, and where she had laid it, though not recorded.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Great grief shrinks from putting itself into words. The Shunammite cannot bring herself to say, “My son is dead;” but by reproaching the prophet with having “deceived” her, she sufficiently indicates her loss.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Did I desire a son of my lord? — I expressed no such wish to thee; I was contented and happy; and when thou didst promise me a son, did I not say, Do not deceive me? Do not mock me with a child which shall grow up to be attractive and engaging, but of whom I shall soon be deprived by death.