Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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2 Kings 4:31
There was neither voice nor hearing - Compare I Kings 18:29.
The child is not awakened - See II Kings 4:20. The euphemism by which death is spoken of as a sleep was already familiar to the Jews (see I Kings 1:21 note).
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