2 Kings 4:18

The child grew up, but one day when he went out to see his father who was with the reapers,

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And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

In Context

17But the woman did indeed become pregnant, and the next year around that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had promised her.

19he complained to his father, “My head hurts! My head hurts!” His father told one of his servants, “Carry him back to his mother.”

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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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