2 Kings 4:31
But Gehazi was gone before them, and had layed the staffe vpon the face of the childe, but he neither spake nor heard: wherefore hee returned to meete him, and told him, saying, The childe is not waken.
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In The King James Version
In Context
32Then came Elisha into the house, and beholde, the childe was dead, and layed vpon his bedde.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:37So Saul asked of God, saying, Shall I goe downe after ye Philistims? wilt thou deliuer them into the hands of Israel? But he answered him not at that time.
1 Kings 18:26So they tooke the one bullocke, that was giuen them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal, from morning to noone, saying, O Baal, heare vs: but there was no voyce, nor any to answere: and they leapt vpon the altar that was made.
Job 14:12So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.
Daniel 12:2And many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to euerlasting life, and some to shame and perpetuall contempt.
Mark 5:39And he went in, and said vnto them, Why make ye this trouble, and weepe? the childe is not dead, but sleepeth.
John 11:11These things spake he, and after, he said vnto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth: but I goe to wake him vp.
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 →