2 Kings 4:14

And he said, “Then what does she want, that I might do for her?” And Gehazi said: “You need not ask. For she has no son, and her husband is elderly.”

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In The King James Version

And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

In Context

13he said to his servant: “Say to her: Behold, you have ministered to us attentively in all things. What do you want, that I might do for you? Do you have any business, or do you want me to speak to the king, or to the leader of the military?” And she responded, “I live in the midst of my own people.”

15And so, he instructed him to call her. And when she had been called, and was standing before the door,

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Cross References

Genesis 17:17Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

Genesis 25:21And Isaac beseeched the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And he heard him, and he gave conception to Rebekah.

Judges 13:2Now there was a certain man from Zorah, and of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah, having a barren wife.

1 Samuel 1:8Therefore, her husband Elkanah said to her: “Hannah, why are you weeping? And why do you not eat? And for what reason do you afflict your heart? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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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