SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:19
Y dijo a su padre: ¡Mi cabeza, mi cabeza! Y él dijo a un criado: Llévalo a su madre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 4:19
Verse 19. My head, any head.] Probably affected by the coup de soleil, or sun stroke, which might, in so young a subject, soon occasion death, especially in that hot country.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And he said unto his father, my head, my head , etc.] After he had been some time with him, he complained of a pain in his head, which might be owing, as Abarbinel thinks, to the sun’s beating upon it, being harvest time, and hot weather; and the pain being exceeding great and vehement, he repeated his complaint, (see Jeremiah 4:19) and he said to a lad, carry him home to his mother ; his father gave orders to a lad that attended the reapers to have him home to his mother, that she might give him something to ease him of his pain.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-37 - Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tendernes cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But how admirably does the prudent, pious mother, guard her lip under this sudden affliction! Not one peevish word escapes from her Such confidence had she of God's goodness, that she was ready to believe that he would restore what he had now taken away. O woman great is thy faith! He that wrought it, would not disappoint it. The sorrowful mother begged leave of her husband to go to the prophet a once. She had not thought it enough to have Elisha's help sometimes in her own family, but, though a woman of rank, attended on publi worship. It well becomes the men of God, to inquire about the welfar of their friends and their families. The answer was, It is well. All well, and yet the child dead in the house! Yes! All is well that God does; all is well with them that are gone, if they are gone to heaven and all well with us that stay behind, if, by the affliction, we ar furthered in our way thither. When any creature-comfort is taken from us, it is well if we can say, through grace, that we did not set ou hearts too much upon it; for if we did, we have reason to fear it wa given in anger, and taken away in wrath. Elisha cried unto God in faith; and the beloved son was restored alive to his mother. Those wh would convey spiritual life to dead souls, must feel deeply for their case, and labour fervently in prayer for them. Though the ministe cannot give Divine life to his fellow-sinners, he must use every means with as much earnestness as if he could do so.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 אל 413 אביו 1 ראשׁי 7218 ראשׁי 7218 ויאמר 559 אל 413 הנער 5288 שׂאהו 5375 אל 413 אמו׃ 517
