2 Kings 4:18

Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

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In The King James Version

And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

In Context

17Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

19And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

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Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:9-18

The Shunammite's Hospitality. ( b. c. 893.) 8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. 9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. 10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be,… Read the whole commentary →

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