Verse 1
THE WIDOW’S OIL MULTIPLIED, 2 Kings 4:1-7.
1. A certain woman According to a Rabbinical conjecture she was the wife of Obadiah, who fed the persecuted prophets in the days of Jezebel. 1 Kings 18:5.
Wives of the sons of the prophets So these prophetical schools were unlike the monasteries in which celibacy was enjoined. Unto Elisha The head of the institution was applied to as a father and lord who had power to help her in her distress.
My two sons to be bondmen The law of Moses provided (Leviticus 25:39-41) that, in case of poverty and inability to pay his debts, a man and his children might be sold, and remain in bondage until the next year of jubilee.
Matthew 18:25, shows that this law was still in force in our Lord’s time. This fact, thus incidentally introduced in the history of Elisha, shows that in his day the law of Moses was the basis of judicial and civil proceedings in the kingdom of Israel.
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