2 Kings 4:10
Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us, he may abide there.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.
11Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber, and rested there.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:8But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shah stand above the rulers.
Matthew 25:40And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
Luke 8:3And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who ministered unto him of their substance.
Hebrews 10:24And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:
1 Peter 4:9Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,
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 →