2 Kings 4:26 - Exposition

Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child ? Elisha feels that there must be something the matter, to account for the Shunammite's coming to him so unexpectedly. His anxiety is aroused, and, in his impatience to know what has happened, instead of waiting for the woman's arrival, he bids his servant run, and ask what is the matter. Some misfortune, he supposes, must have happened either to her, or to her husband, or to the child. And she answered, It is well . She gave, as before to her husband ( 2 Kings 4:23 ), the ambiguous answer, "Peace," intending thereby merely to put off Gehazi, and not explain herself to any one but his master.