2 Kings 4:20
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
19He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
21She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.
Cross References
Genesis 22:2He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
Genesis 37:5Joseph dreamt a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Ezekiel 24:16“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
Luke 7:12Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 4:19-38
The Death of the Shunammite's Son; The Shunammite's Son Restored. ( b. c. 887.) 18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. 22 And she called unto her… Read the whole commentary →