19And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
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And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)We have here a further recompence made to the widow for her kindness to the prophet; as if it were a small thing to be kept alive, her son, when dead, is restored to life, and so restored to her. Observe, I. The sickness and death of the child. For aught that appears he was her only son, the comfort of her widowed estate. He was fed miraculously, and yet that did not secure him from sickness and d…
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