Teks -- 2 Kings 4:34 (NET)

4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin grew warm.

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Wesley: 2Ki 4:34 - And put

One part upon another successively; for the disproportion of the bodies would not permit it to be done together.

Wesley: 2Ki 4:34 - Grew warm

Not by any external heat, which could not be transmitted to the child's body by such slight touches of the prophet's body; but from a principle of life, which was already infused into the child, and by degrees enlivened all the parts of his body.

JFB: 2Ki 4:34 - lay upon the child, &c.

(see 1Ki 17:21; Act 20:10). Although this contact with a dead body would communicate ceremonial uncleanness, yet, in performing the great moral duties of piety and benevolence, positive laws were sometimes dispensed with, particularly by the prophets.

Clarke: 2Ki 4:34 - Lay upon the child

Lay upon the child - Endeavored to convey a portion of his own natural warmth to the body of the child; and probably endeavored, by blowing into the child’ s mouth, to inflate the lungs, and restore respiration. He uses every natural means in his power to restore life, while praying to the Author of it to exert a miraculous influence. Natural means are in our power; those that are supernatural belong to God. We should always do our own work, and beg of God to do his.

TSK: 2Ki 4:34

1Ki 17:21; Act 20:10

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ki 4:34 - He went up, and lay upon the child // His mouth upon his mouth // The flesh of the child waxed warm

He went up, and lay upon the child and although some ceremonial uncleanness might seem to be contracted by the touch of this dead body, yet that was justly to give place to a moral duty, and to an action of so great piety and charity as this was, especially when done by a prophet, and by the instinct of God’ s Spirit, who can dispense with his own laws.

His mouth upon his mouth & c; one part upon another successively; for the disproportion of the bodies would not permit it to be done together. Compare 1Ki 17:21 Act 20:10 .

The flesh of the child waxed warm not by any external heat, which could not be transmitted to the child’ s body by such slight touches of the prophet’ s body; but by a natural heat, proceeding from a principle of life, which was already infused into the child, and by degrees enlivened all the parts of his body.

Haydock: 2Ki 4:34 - Warm

Warm. Arabic adds, "by his breath," as when God breathed a soul into Adam. (Theodoret, q. 18.) ---

Some Greek interpreters have, "he breathed upon him," &c.

Gill: 2Ki 4:34 - And he went up // and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands, and stretched himself upon the child // and the flesh of the child waxed warm

And he went up,.... To the bed, which was on an ascent in the chamber; see Gill on 2Ki 1:4 and lay upon the child; as Elijah did on the widow's son of Zarephath, 1Ki 17:21.

and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands, and stretched himself upon the child; that is, he did each of these one after another, since the disproportion of their bodies would not admit of their being done together:

and the flesh of the child waxed warm; not from any virtue imparted to it by these motions and actions of the prophet, but from life being infused into it by the Lord, which caused an heat in the several parts of the body.