SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:34
Después subió, y se tendió sobre el niño, poniendo su boca sobre la boca de él, y sus ojos sobre los ojos de él, y sus manos sobre las manos de él; así se midió sobre él, y la carne del niño se calentó.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 4:34
Verse 34. Lay upon the child] endeavoured to convey a portion of his own natural warmth to the body of the child; and probably endeavoured, by blowing into the child's mouth, to inflate the lungs, and restore respiration. He uses every natural means in his power to restore life, while praying to the Author of it to exert a miraculous influence. Natural means are in our power; those that are supernatural belong to God. We should always do our own work, and beg of God to do his.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 34. And he went up , etc.] To the bed, which was on an ascent in the chamber, (see Gill on “ 2 Kings 1:4”) and lay upon the child; as Elijah did on the widow’s son of Zarephath, ( 1 Kings 17:21) and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands, and stretched himself upon the child ; that is, he did each of these one after another, since the disproportion of their bodies would not admit of their being done together: and the flesh of the child waxed warm ; not from any virtue imparted to it by these motions and actions of the prophet, but from life being infused into it by the Lord, which caused an heat in the several parts of the body.
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
ויעל 5927 וישׁכב 7901 על 5921 הילד 3206 וישׂם 7760 פיו 6310 על 5921 פיו 6310 ועיניו 5869 על 5921 עיניו 5869 וכפיו 3709 על 5921 כפו 3709 ויגהר 1457 עליו 5921 ויחם 2552 בשׂר 1320 הילד׃ 3206
