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**husband** = man. Hebrew ' *ish* . App-14 .
**bondmen.** Compare [Leviticus 25:39](../../../kjv/leviticus/25/39) and [Nehemiah 5:5](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/5) .

**borrow not a few** = scant not.

**who brought** = they bringing.
**she poured out.** Elisha's fifth miracle. See note on [2 Kings 2:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/2/15) .

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**debt** = creditor.
**children** = sons.

**Shunem.** In the plain of Esdraelon. The native place of Abishag ([1 Kings 1:3](../../../kjv/1-kings/1/3) ).
**great** = wealthy, or a person of position ([2 Samuel 19:32](../../../kjv/2-samuel/19/32) ).

**holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .

**chamber** = upper chamber, or wall-chamber.
**candlestick** = lampstand. Very little furniture used in the East to-day.

**servant** = young man.

**careful . . . care.** Figure of speech *Polyptoton =* exceedingly careful.
**spoken for to the king.** This confidence in his influence with the king is accounted for by the miraculous aid recently given by Elisha in [2 Kings 3:16-19](../../../kjv/2-kings/3/16-19) .

**door** = entrance.

**of life, or of spring.** Read "that season about the time of spring of which Klisha had said unto her". The sixth miracle. Compare [2 Kings 2:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/2/15) .

**child** = progeny.

**now.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "now therefore".

**her soul** = herself. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**vexed** = bitter.

**deceive** = cajole.

**said.** In what Elisha said the signs given are put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the things symbolized by them.
**salute him not.** Idiom. The salutation being ceremonial and taking time.
**child.** Hebrew. *na'ar =* youth.

**thy soul** = thou.

**Take up thy son.** The seventh miracle ([2 Kings 2:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/2/15) ).

**wild vine:** i.e. a plant with vine-like tendrils. Not the grape, but probably the colocynth.

**death.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), for that which causes death.

**no harm** = no evil thing. Elisha's eighth miracle Compare [2 Kings 2:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/2/15) .

**servitor** = attendant. Old English = one who serves.
**an hundred men.** Elisha's ninth miracle. See note on [2 Kings 2:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/2/15) . One of three ( App-10 ) miracles of feeding multitudes. Compare [Matthew 14:20](../../../kjv/matthew/14/20) ; [Matthew 15:34](../../../kjv/matthew/15/34) .

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