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, saying, "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 was wiping [them] with the hair of her head and was kissing his feet and anointing [them] with the perfumed oil.

Thrust

But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up [and] asked him, saying, "Send her away, because she is crying out after us!"

And the crowd rebuked them so that they would be quiet. But they called out all the more, saying, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

And they were bringing young children to him so that he could touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

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

Let her alone

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.

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

Vexed

She [was] {deeply troubled}, so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly.

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger.

The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it?

Hid it from me

Then one of his servants said, "No, my lord the king, but Elisha the prophet who is [in] Israel tells the king of Israel things which you speak {in your own bedchamber}."

Then Yahweh said, "Shall I conceal from Abraham what I [am going] to do?

Nathan said to the king, "Go and do all that [is] in your heart, for Yahweh [is] with you."

Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.

No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

General references

Then Yahweh said, "Shall I conceal from Abraham what I [am going] to do?