SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:37
Y ella entró, y se echó a sus pies, y se inclinó a tierra; y tomó su hijo, y salió.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 4:37
Verse 37. She went in and fell at his feet] Few can enter into the feelings of this noble woman. What suspense must she have felt during the time that the prophet was employed in the slow process referred to above! for slow in its own nature it must have been, and exceedingly exhausting to the prophet himself.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 37. Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground , etc.] In reverence of him, and with the most profound gratitude and thankfulness for the mercy received: and took up her son, and went out ; of the chamber into her house, with great joy and gladness.
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
ותבא 935 ותפל 5307 על 5921 רגליו 7272 ותשׁתחו 7812 ארצה 776 ותשׂא 5375 את 853 בנה 1121 ותצא׃ 3318
