So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.
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So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.
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So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
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So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 4:44 So he set [it] before them, and…
2Ki 4:44 So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left [thereof], according to the word of the LORD.
Ver. 44. And they did eat, and left.] It grew in their hands, as Mat 14:20 Joh 6:12-13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So he set it before them,.... The twenty barley…
So he set it before them,.... The twenty barley loaves, and the full ears of corn:
and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord; as the disciples did at the miracle of the loaves and fishes; though that must be allowed to be a greater miracle than this, Mat 14:17.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 42–44. Elisha feeds one hundred men with twenty loaves…
42–44. Elisha feeds one hundred men with twenty loaves (Not in Chronicles)
44. from Baal-shalisha] R.V. Baal-shalishah. The name is found only here, and the LXX. writes it Βαιθαρισὰ or Βαθσαρισά, as though in this instance Baal had been interchangeable with the more common Hebrew prefix, in geographical names, Beth. The place cannot have been remote from Gilgal. The ‘land of Shalishah’ was close to mount Ephraim, as we see in the account of Saul’s search for the asses (1Sa_9:4). Probably Baal-shalishah was one village or town of this district.
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bread of the firstfruits] On the custom of bringing an offering to the prophets, cf. 1Sa_9:7. In that case the present was spoken of in connexion with some enquiry to be made from him. And it may have been so here, though as the offering was from the first fruits, it may have been brought as a religious duty (cf. Lev_23:14) and presented to Elisha, as the representative of God, in this time when there was no place to which such offerings could be brought. If this be so, it is another token, among many, that the law of Jehovah was not forgotten by some among the people in the northern kingdom.
full [R.V. fresh] ears of corn] This is the rendering of one word in the Hebrew, which from its use elsewhere seems to mean the first gathered and best of the corn. The interpreters explain it, some of the grain itself, some of the flour made from it. But the leading idea is its newness, hence the change to ‘fresh’ instead of ‘full’. The passages for comparison are Lev_2:14; Lev_23:14, in each of which the change has been made to ‘fresh’ in R.V.
in the husk thereof] R.V. in his sack. The word is only found here. It is agreed however that it signifies some sort of bag. The A.V. took it of the covering of the grain, but the Vulgate gives pera, i.e., a scrip or wallet. The Complutensian text of the LXX. supports this rendering, the Alexandrine version attempts a transliteration of the unusual word.
44. they did eat, and left thereof] Compare with this the miracles of our Lord (Mat_14:15-21; Mat_15:32-38; Joh_6:5-14). In this account of Elisha there is however not much dwelling on the increase of the bread by a miracle, and we are left to accept the result as either brought about in that way, or by the appetites of the men being satisfied with a small quantity.
The LXX. omits ‘so he set it before them’ at the commencement of this verse.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (44) And they did eat, and left thereof.—Comp. our…
(44) And they did eat, and left thereof.—Comp. our Lord’s miracles, already referred to. Bähr denies any miraculous increase of the food. He makes the miracle consist in the fact that the one hundred men were satisfied with the little they received, and even had some to spare. Similarly, Thenius thinks that the provisions were not inconsiderable for a hundred men (?), and that the emphasis of the narrative lies rather on Elisha’s absolute confidence in God than on His wonder-working powers; but this is certainly opposed to the sacred writer’s intention. Keil rightly calls attention to the fact that Elisha does not perform, but only predicts, this miracle.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So he set it before them, and they did…
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord. We are not expressly told how the miracle was wrought, whether by an augmentation of the quantity of the food supernaturally produced, or by a lessening of the appetites of the men, as Bahr supposes. But the analogy of our Lord"s miracles of feeding the multitudes, whereof this is a manifest type, makes it probable that in this case also there was a miraculous increase of the food. The object of the writer in communicating the account is certainly not merely to show how the Lord cared for his servants, but to relate another miracle wrought by Elisha, of a different kind from those previously related. He is occupied with Elisha"s miracles through this entire chanter and through the three next.
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