2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to the man of God to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
28And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?
Cross References
Genesis 18:17And the Lord said: Can I hide from Abraham what I am about to do:
2 Samuel 7:3And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in thy heart: because the Lord is with thee.
2 Kings 6:12And one of his servants said: No one, my lord O king: but Eliseus the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel all the words, that thou speakest in thy privy chamber.
Proverbs 14:10The heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle.
Amos 3:7For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
Matthew 20:31And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their peace. But they cried out the more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us.
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 →