SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:8
¶ Y aconteció también que un día pasaba Eliseo por Sunem; y había allí una mujer principal, la cual le constriñó a que comiese del pan; y así cuando pasaba por allí, venía a su casa a comer del pan.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 4:8
Verse 8. Elisha passed to Shunem] This city was in the tribe of Issachar, to the south of the brook Kishon, and at the foot of Mount Tabor. Where was a great woman] In Pirkey Rab. Eliezer, this woman is said to have been the sister of Abishag, the Shunammite, well known in the history of David.
Instead of great woman, the Chaldee has, a woman fearing sin; the Arabic, a woman eminent for piety before God. This made her truly great.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. And it fell on a day , etc.] Or so it was at a certain time: that Elisha passed to Shunem ; a city in the tribe of Issachar; of which (see Joshua 19:18), where was a great woman ; of great wealth and riches, of great benevolence and hospitality, and of great grace and piety; that feared sin, as the Targum paraphrases it; a woman of great credit and reputation on all accounts. The Jews say she was the sister of Abishag the Shunammite, and the mother of Iddo the prophet: and she constrained him to eat bread ; she had observed him at all times pass that way, and guessed by his habit and deportment that he was a religious man, and therefore took an opportunity to invite him into her house, and take a dinner with her; but he being modest and shy, she was obliged to use some pressing language, and be importunate with him, that he would accept of her invitation, which he did: and so it was, that, as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread ; being made very welcome, and encouraged by the free and kind entertainment he met with, as often as he had occasion to come that way, he called and took a meal with her; and this it seems was pretty often, for Shunem was not far from Carmel, which he frequented, and lay in the way to Samaria, Bethel, and Jericho, places he often visited, the schools of the prophets being there.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-17 - Elisha was well thought of by the king of Israel for his late services a good man can take as much pleasure in serving others, as in raisin himself. But the Shunammite needed not any good offices of this kind It is a happiness to dwell among our own people, that love and respec us, and to whom we are able to do good. It would be well with many, if they did but know when they are really well off. The Lord sees the secret wish which is suppressed in obedience to his will, and he wil hear the prayers of his servants in behalf of their benefactors, by sending unasked-for and unexpected mercies; nor must the professions of men of God be supposed to be delusive like those of men of the world.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 היום 3117 ויעבר 5674 אלישׁע 477 אל 413 שׁונם 7766 ושׁם 8033 אשׁה 802 גדולה 1419 ותחזק 2388 בו לאכל 398 לחם 3899 ויהי 1961 מדי 1767 עברו 5674 יסר 5493 שׁמה 8033 לאכל 398 לחם׃ 3899
