2 Kings 4:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Him by the feet

Matthew 28:9

Luke 7:38

Thrust

John 12:4

Let her alone

Mark 14:6

John 12:7

Vexed

Hid it from me

John 15:15

General references

Genesis 18:17

Bible References

Him by the feet

And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also, Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by the feet, and did him homage.

and standing at his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the myrrh.

Thrust

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to him and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.

But the crowd rebuked them, that they might be silent. But they cried out the more, saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David.

And they brought little children to him that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought them.

And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

One of his disciples therefore, Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

Let her alone

But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me;

Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

Vexed

and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept much.

My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?

Hid it from me

And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?

And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart; for Jehovah is with thee.

But the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.

General references

And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?