2 Kings 4:10
Please let's make a small room on the roof,. We can put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it for him. Then he can stay there whenever he visits us.”
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In Context
9She told her husband, “I'm sure that this man who regularly visits us is a holy man of God.
11One day Elisha arrived and went up to his room and lay down.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:8But noble people act unselfishly; they keep to their principles of generosity.
Matthew 25:40The king will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you did for one of these least important brothers of mine you did for me.’
Luke 8:3Joanna, the wife of Herod's manager Chuza; Susanna; and many more who provided support from their personal resources.
Hebrews 10:24Let's think about how we can motivate one another to love and to do what is good.
1 Peter 4:9Show hospitality to one another, and don't complain.
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 →