2 Kings 4:10
Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:8But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
Matthew 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
Luke 8:3and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who served them from their possessions.
Hebrews 10:24Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
1 Peter 4:9Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
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 →