Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The famine here recorded, and the conversation of the monarch with Gehazi, must have been anterior to the events related in II Kings 5 since we may be sure that a king of Israel would not have entered into familiar conversation with a confirmed leper. The writer of Kings probably col ected the miracles of Elisha from various sources, and did not always arrange them chronologically. Here the link of connection is to be found in the nature of the miracle. As Elisha on one occasion prophesied plenty, so on another he had prophesied a famine.
Called for a famine - A frequent expression (compare the marginal references). God' s "calling for" anything is the same as His producing it (see Ezekiel 36:29; Romans 4:17).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 8:1:
Joshua 19:18
2 Samuel 24:13
Amos 4:6
Haggai 1:11
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