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2 Kings 4:19
19But he said to his father, “My head, my head.” The man said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
2 Kings 4:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
- New International Version (NIV)He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
Context of 2 Kings 4:19
17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, just as Elisha had said to her. 18When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers. But he said to his father, “My head, my head.” The man said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20When he had carried and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. 21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door [of the small upper room] behind him and left.
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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל־אָבִ֖יו רֹאשִׁ֣י׀ רֹאשִׁ֑י וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־הַנַּ֔עַר שָׂאֵ֖הוּ אֶל־אִמּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Kings 4:19
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of a woman, Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
- Jeremiah 4:19My soul, my soul! I writhe in anguish and pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is pounding and throbbing within me; I cannot be silent, For you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 4:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19My head, my head - Probably affected by the coup de soleil, or sun stroke, which might, in so young a subject, soon occasion death, especially in that hot country.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19The child‘s malady was a sunstroke. The inhabitants of Palestine suffered from this (Psalm 121:6; Isaiah 49:10; Judith 8:3).Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-37Verses 18-37 Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But how admirably does the prudent, pious mother, guard her lips under this sudden affliction! Not one peevish word escapes from her. Such confidence had she of God's goodness, that she was ready to believe that he would restore what he had now taken away. O woman, great is thy faith! He that wrought…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-20My head! My head!: The boy may have suffered a sudden brain illness, such as an aneurysm. His mother’s faith and character were tested when he died suddenly while sitting on her lap.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. My head, my head!--The cries of the boy, the part affected, and the season of the year, make it probable that he had been overtaken by a stroke of the sun. Pain, stupor, and inflammatory fever are the symptoms of the disease, which is often fatal.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Kings 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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