2 Kings 4:16
He said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
World English Bible
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In Context
15He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
Cross References
Genesis 17:16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
Genesis 18:10He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:14Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son.”
1 Kings 17:24The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the LORD’s word in your mouth is truth.”
2 Kings 2:19The men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is barren.”
2 Kings 5:10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”
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 →