2 Kings 4:22 - Exposition

And she culled unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses. She "called to her husband" from the house, without calling him into the house, expressing her desire to visit Elisha, without stating the object of her visit, and asked for the necessary riding-animal and escort. The nearest part of Carmel was at least fourteen or fifteen miles from Shunem, so that she could not walk, That I may run — i.e; hasten— to the man of God. "Man of God" was evidently the designation by which Elisha was known in the house ( 2 Kings 4:16 , 2 Kings 4:21 , 2 Kings 4:25 ). And some again; i.e. return home before nightfall.