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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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Charles Ellicott
On 2 Kings 4:30
19th Century
Bishop
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…
Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Kings 4:29–30
19th Century
Preacher
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…
John Gill
On 2 Kings 4:30
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On 2 Kings 4:18–37
17th Century
Minister
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 …