2 Kings 4:36

And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.

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In The King James Version

And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

In Context

35Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.

37And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:23And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

2 Kings 8:1Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

Hebrews 11:35Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:19-38

The Death of the Shunammite's Son; The Shunammite's Son Restored. ( b. c. 887.) 18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. 22 And she called unto her… Read the whole commentary →

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