2 Kings 4:10

Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son

8 Now it happened one day that Elisha went to ^aShunem, where there was a notable woman, and she² persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food.

9 And she said to her husband, “Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly.

10 Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.”

11 And it happened one day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there.

12 Then he said to ^aGehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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A little chamber on the wall - The room probably projected like a balcony beyond the lower apartments - an arrangement common in the East.

A stool - Rather, "a chair." The "chair" and "table," unusual in the sleeping-rooms of the East, indicate that the prophet was expected to use his apartment for study and retirement, not only as a sleeping-chamber.

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