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

Suddenly, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.

and knelt at his feet behind him. She was crying and began to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed his feet over and over again, anointing them constantly with the perfume.

Thrust

But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, "Send her away, because she keeps on screaming as she follows us."

When the crowd told them harshly to be silent, they shouted even louder, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"

Some people were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

Let her alone

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

Vexed

Deeply distressed, she prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.

"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.

The heart knows its own bitterness an outsider cannot share in its joy.

A man's spirit can sustain him during his illness, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Hid it from me

"No, your majesty," one of his servants said. "Elisha the prophet, who lives in Israel, tells the king of Israel what you talk about in your bedroom!"

"Should I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do," the LORD asked,

Nathan replied to the king, "Go do everything you have in mind, because the LORD is with you."

"Truly the Lord GOD will do nothing he has mentioned without revealing his purposes to his servants the prophets.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

General references

"Should I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do," the LORD asked,