And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
And he saith, `Call for her;' and he calleth for her, and she standeth at the opening,
And he said, Call her; and he called her; and she stood in the doorway.
2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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And he said, call her,.... Perhaps finding an impulse on his own mind, from the Spirit of God, that this was the thing to be done for her: and when he had called her, she stood in the door; of his chamber: See Gill on 2Ki 4:12.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
