Great grief shrinks from putting itself into words. The Shunammite cannot bring herself to say, “My son is dead,” but by reproaching the prophet fo…

Then. — And; so in 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 4:35.

Did I desire (ask<…

Then he learned what her trouble was, and understood that the child was dead. Before she had said as much as that, he read the news in the tones of…

Then she said, did I desire a son of my lord ?
&c.] It was not at her request she had one, at least the first motion…

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 …