Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
ELISHA AUGMENTS THE WIDOW'S OIL. (II Kings 4:1-7)
there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets—They were allowed to marry as well as the priests and Levites. Her husband, not enjoying the lucrative profits of business, had nothing but a professional income, which, in that irreligious age, would be precarious and very scanty, so that he was not in a condition to provide for his family.
the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen—By the enactment of the law, a creditor was entitled to claim the person and children of the insolvent debtor, and compel them to serve him as bondmen till the year of jubilee should set them free.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Kings 4:1:
Deuteronomy 15:12
2 Kings 4:1
Isaiah 50:1
Amos 7:14
Matthew 18:25
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