Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Kings 4:34
lay upon the child, etc.—(see I Kings 17:21; Acts 20:10). Although this contact with a dead body would communicate ceremonial uncleanness, yet, in performing the great moral duties of piety and benevolence, positive laws were sometimes dispensed with, particularly by the prophets.
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