John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 4:24
Then she saddled an ass ,.... Her servant did it by her order: and said to her servant, drive, and go forward ; make all the haste he could: slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee ; do not be afraid of riding too fast for me; if thou dost, I will tell thee; till then, keep on a good pace: Abarbinel says she walked afoot all the way, and ordered the man not to slacken his pace in riding for her, unless she called to him; and the Targum seems to favour this sense,"do not press... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 4:23
And he said, wherefore wilt thou go to him today ?.... What reason is there for it? what is the meaning of it? it is neither new moon nor sabbath ; neither the first day of the month, nor the seventh day of the week, times which were religiously observed; so with the Heathens the new moon and the seventh of the week, and so the fourth, were sacred F21 Hesiod. Opera & Dies, l. 2. ; which notions they borrowed from the Jews; see Gill on 1 Samuel 20:5 and when, it seems, it was... read more