2 Kings 4:42 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | NLT

One day a man from Baal-shalishah brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain and twenty loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

Baal-shalisha - Fifteen Roman miles north of Lydda, in the Sharon plain to the west of the highlands of Ephraim. It was, apparently, the chi…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

Elisha among the sons of the prophets at Gilgal during the famine.

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And there came a man from Baalshalisha Of which place (See Gill on 1 Samuel 9:4), the Targum is, fro…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

There was a famine of bread, but not of hearing the word of God, for Elisha had the sons of the prophets sitting before him, to hear his wisdom. El…