2 Kings 4:30 - Exposition

And the mother of the child said, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth , I will not leave thee. Apparently, the woman supposed that Elisha intended to do nothing more, but trust the child's recovery to such virtue as might inhere in his staff. But her own resolution was long ago taken—she would be content with nothing less than bringing the prophet face to face with her dead child. She "will not leave" him till he consents to accompany her to her home. And he arose, and followed her ; as, no doubt, he had intended from the first.