Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Kings 4

2 Kings 4:1 (b) And therefore fel not into det by vnthriftines or prodigalitie, but by the hand of the Lord.

2 Kings 4:1 (c) Because I am poore and not able to pay.

2 Kings 4:1 (a) Read {Chap 2,3}

2 Kings 4:2 (d) Thus God suffreth his many times to be broght to extreme necessitie, before he succor them, that afterwarde they may the more praise his mercie.

2 Kings 4:4 (e) The Prophet declareth hereby vnto her, that God neuer faileth to provide for his seruants, their wiues & children, if they trust in him.

2 Kings 4:4 (!) God increaseth the oyle to the poore widowe by Elisha.

2 Kings 4:6 (f) To augment and increase in the vessels.

2 Kings 4:7 (g) God here did not onely prouide for his seruant that his dets shulde be payed, & so kept his doctrine and profession without slander, but also for his wife and children.

2 Kings 4:10 (h) Which shulde be separate from the rest of the house, that he might more commodously giue him slefe to study and prayers.

2 Kings 4:12 (!) He obteineth for the Shunammite a sonne at Gods hand.

2 Kings 4:13 (i) Thus the seruants of God are not vnthankful for the benefites they receyue.

2 Kings 4:13 (k) I am content with that that God hathe sent me, and can want nothing that one can do for another.

2 Kings 4:14 (l) Which then was a reproche & therefore he wolde that his master shulde pray to God for her that she might be fruteful.

2 Kings 4:19 (m) His head aked sore, and therefore he cryed thus.

2 Kings 4:23 (/) Ebr. peace.

2 Kings 4:23 (n) For at suche times the people were wonte to resorte to the Prophetes for doctrine and consolacion.

2 Kings 4:25 (/) Or, farre of.

2 Kings 4:27 (o) In token of humilitie and joy that she had met with him.

2 Kings 4:27 (/) Ebr her soule is to bitternes.

2 Kings 4:28 (!) Who dying

2 Kings 4:29 (p) Make suche spede that nothing may let thee in the way, {Luk. 10, 4}

2 Kings 4:32 (!) He raiseth him vp againe.

2 Kings 4:34 (q) The like did Eliiah to the widowes sone at Sarephta {1 King 17,21} and S Paul {Act 20} to signifying that care that oght to be in them that beare the worde of God and are distributers of the spiritual life.

2 Kings 4:35 (r) Meaning, oftentimes.

2 Kings 4:38 (s) That is, in the land of Israel.

2 Kings 4:39 (t) Which the Apoticaries call colloquintida, and is moste vehement and dangerous in purging.

2 Kings 4:40 (!) He maketh swete the pottage.

2 Kings 4:40 (u) They feared that they were poysoned, because of the bitternes.

2 Kings 4:42 (!) And multiplieth the loaues.

2 Kings 4:43 (x) It is not the quantitie of bread that satisfieth, but the blessing that God giueth.