2 Kings 4:9
And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.
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Deuteronomy 33:1This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses blessed the children of Israel, before his death.
1 Kings 17:18And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?
2 Kings 4:7And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.
Matthew 5:16So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
1 Timothy 6:11But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.
1 Peter 3:1In like manner also let wives be subject to their husbands: that if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives.
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 →