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The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.
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A Faith That Won't Quit
Commentators universally praise the mother's persistent faith. She makes a solemn oath, "As the LORD liveth... I will not leave thee," refusing to accept a delegated solution. Scholars like John Gill and Matthew Henry see this as a model of importunate prayer and faith that presses in for God's direct intervention, refusing to settle for anything less than the presence of God's chosen prophet.
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19th Century
Anglican
I will not leave you. —She wished the prophet himself to go to her child. The writer appropriately substitutes “the mother of the child” f…
Baptist
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any sa…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the mother of the child said Having no faith in what the servant was to do, or could do:
as t…
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Presbyterian
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 …
