Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
She caught him by the feet - To lay hold of the knees or feet has always been thought in the East to add force to supplication, and is practiced even at the present day. Compare Matthew 18:29; John 11:32.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 4:27:
Job 27:2
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