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 behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.

and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Thrust

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us."

The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.

Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,

Let her alone

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.

Vexed

She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

Hid it from me

And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."

The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

And Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you."

"For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servantdoes not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

General references

The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,