וְאִשָּׁ֣ה אַחַ֣ת מִנְּשֵׁ֣י בְנֵֽי־הַ֠נְּבִיאִים צָעֲקָ֨ה אֶל־אֱלִישָׁ֜ע לֵאמֹ֗ר עַבְדְּךָ֤ אִישִׁי֙ מֵ֔ת וְאַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתָּ כִּ֣י עַבְדְּךָ֔ הָיָ֥ה יָרֵ֖א אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וְהַ֨נֹּשֶׁ֔ה בָּ֗א לָקַ֜חַת אֶת־שְׁנֵ֧י יְלָדַ֛י ל֖וֹ לַעֲבָדִֽים׃
At isang babae mula sa mga asawa ng mga anak ng mga propeta ang dumaing kay Eliseo, na nagsasabi: “Ang iyong lingkod na aking asawa ay namatay na, at alam mo na ang iyong lingkod ay may takot sa Walang-Hanggan; at dumating ang nagpapautang upang kunin ang aking dalawang anak upang gawin niyang mga alipin.”
Abarbanel
The Ibn Ezra in his wisdom writes that this Ovadiah cannot be the same one who is found in the book of Melachim because there Ovadiah is labeled as one who "fears Gd" and he isn't called a prophet there. Since prophet is a more respected label it should've been used to label him. But this argument is invalid because maybe Ovadiah hadn't yet received his prophecy while he was still serving the house of Achav, so the pesukim in Melachim only discuss his fear of Gd and his sustaining and hiding and saving the prophets. Proof that he had this prophecy later is found in II Kings 4:1 when a women, described as the wife of one of the bnei neviim cries out to Elisha the prophet saying that her husband, who had greatly feared Gd died. And this husband is surely the same Ovadiah who was famous for his piety and fear of Gd, since he is described as Gd fearing three times in the pesukim. And now, based on this, we learn that he is definitely from the bnei neviim himself, is it unlikely that he was the one to give this small prophecy here? And the fact that his wife doesn't identify him as a prophet is due to her humility or because he only had this one small prophecy so she identifies him as Gd fearing and the pesuk that introduces her tells us he was a navi. And maybe because of this his wife says "you know that he was Gd fearing" because Elisha was familiar with him and his prophecy. And the student of R' meir, who was also a Edom convert, told about Ovadiah, another Edom convert. And because Ovadiah was from Edom and came under the Wings of the Shechina, Gd showed him the destruction of his birthplace to comfort him for being a convert and to inform him of the end of his nation to be destroyed because a person much prefers to hear about his/her nation rather than any different one. And therefore Ovadiah received this prophecy about Edom. ...
From David to Destruction
Elisha orchestrates the oil miracle on behalf of the widowed wife of one of the Bnei HaNevi’m (Melachim II 4:1-7) in a manner that requires her to assemble many vessels, take the bit of oil she has remaining, and pour it into the gathered vessels, which subsequently fill with oil.
From David to Destruction
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have lent Heb. נֹשִׁים, like (II Kings 4:1): “...and the creditor (וְהַנֹשֶּׁה) has come to take.”