2 Kings 4:18

And the boy grows, and the day comes that he goes out to his father, to the reapers,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17And the woman conceives and bears a son, at this season, according to the time of life that Elisha spoke of to her.

19and he says to his father, “My head, my head”; and he says to the young man, “Carry him 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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