And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
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Gill's Exposition
And Gehazi passed on before them,.... The prophet and the Shunammite:
and laid the staff upon the face of the child; as he was ordered:
but there was neither voice nor hearing: it seems as if he…
Barnes' Notes
There was neither voice nor hearing - Compare 1Ki 18:29. The child is not awakened - See 2Ki 4:20. The euphemism by which death is spoken of as a sleep was already familiar to the Jews (see 1Ki 1:21…
We may well suppose that, after the birth of this son, the prophet was doubly welcome to the good Shunammite. He had thought himself indebted to her, but henceforth, as long as she lives, she will…
Cambridge Bible
there was neither voice, nor hearing In the margin both A.V. and R.V. give -attention" as the literal meaning of the last word. It is the same which in the account of Elijah's contest with the…
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