2 Kings 4:23. He said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath.
The prophets were probably accustomed at the new moon and on the Sabbath-day to assemble the people for instruction and edification. The question of the husband of the Shunammite woman appears, therefore, to express his astonishment that she should go to the prophet at a time which was neither new moon nor Sabbath. The prophet Amos represents the greedy, sordid men of his day as saying, “When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?” (Amos 8:5). They preferred their worldly business to the keeping of sacred days, or listening to the instructions of the men of God.