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2 Kings 4:11Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 18:252 Kgs 2:3Neh 5:2-5Ps 147:11Lev 25:39-411 Sam 22:22 Kgs 4:38Acts 13:26Eccl 8:12Jas 2:13

2 Kings 4:22Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:12Jas 2:52 Kgs 2:92 Kgs 6:26-27John 6:5-7Matt 15:342 Cor 6:10Acts 3:6

2 Kings 4:33He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 2:7John 16:24Ps 81:102 Kgs 13:18-192 Kgs 3:16

2 Kings 4:44Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 8:5-9Matt 6:61 Kgs 17:19-202 Kgs 4:32-33Acts 9:40Eph 3:20John 2:7-9John 6:11Mark 5:40Mark 6:37-44

2 Kings 4:55So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 5:11Heb 11:7-81 Kgs 17:15-16Luke 1:45

2 Kings 4:66When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 14:202 Kgs 13:19Luke 6:191 Kgs 17:142 Chr 6:12-132 Kgs 4:43-44John 6:12Josh 5:12Matt 13:58Matt 15:37

2 Kings 4:77She went and told the prophet. He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 3:7-121 Kgs 12:22Phil 4:8Ps 37:21Rom 12:17

2 Kings 4:88One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 19:181 Kgs 1:32 Kgs 4:11-12Gen 19:3Job 1:3Job 32:9Luke 24:292 Sam 19:32Judg 19:20Acts 16:15

2 Kings 4:99She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:24Prov 31:10-112 Kgs 4:71 Thess 2:10Titus 1:81 Kgs 17:18Matt 5:161 Pet 3:1Deut 33:1

2 Kings 4:1010Let’s make a small, private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:13Matt 10:41-42Matt 25:40Heb 10:241 Pet 4:9-10Heb 13:2Isa 32:8Luke 8:3Mark 9:411 Kgs 17:19

2 Kings 4:1111One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Kings 4:1212He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” So he did so and she came to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 8:4-51 Kgs 19:32 Kgs 3:112 Kgs 4:29-312 Kgs 5:20-271 Kgs 18:43Acts 13:5

2 Kings 4:1313Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:16-18Heb 6:10Phil 4:18-191 Tim 6:6-81 Thess 5:12-13Heb 13:5Rom 16:62 Sam 19:13Matt 10:40-42Ps 37:3

2 Kings 4:1414So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 1:8Gen 15:2-3Luke 1:7Gen 18:10-14Gen 25:21Judg 13:21 Sam 1:2Gen 17:17Gen 30:1

2 Kings 4:1515Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Kings 4:1616He said, “About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 18:10Luke 1:132 Kgs 4:28Gen 17:21Gen 18:12-152 Kgs 2:19Gen 17:16-17Luke 1:30-31Ps 116:111 Kgs 17:18

2 Kings 4:1717The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:1Luke 1:36Ps 113:9Heb 11:111 Sam 1:19-20Luke 1:24-25

2 Kings 4:1818The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ruth 2:4

2 Kings 4:1919He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:19Job 14:1-2

2 Kings 4:2020So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:12John 11:14John 11:3John 11:51 Kgs 17:17Ezek 24:16-18Gen 22:2Gen 37:3Gen 37:5Isa 49:15

2 Kings 4:2121She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:321 Kgs 17:192 Kgs 4:102 Kgs 4:7

2 Kings 4:2222She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:242 Kgs 4:26Acts 9:38John 11:3

2 Kings 4:2323He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 10:101 Chr 23:31Num 28:11Isa 1:13-15

2 Kings 4:2424She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:131 Kgs 13:231 Sam 25:19-20Exod 4:20

2 Kings 4:2525So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:251 Kgs 18:191 Kgs 18:42Isa 35:2

2 Kings 4:2626Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, “Everything’s fine.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 15:361 Sam 17:182 Kgs 4:231 Sam 3:18Gen 37:14Job 1:21-22Ps 39:9Gen 29:6

2 Kings 4:2727But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:3Gen 18:171 Sam 1:102 Kgs 4:252 Kgs 6:12Amos 3:7Job 10:1Matt 15:23Prov 14:10Prov 18:14

2 Kings 4:2828She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 30:12 Kgs 4:16

2 Kings 4:2929Elisha told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child’s face.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:141 Kgs 18:46Exod 14:162 Kgs 9:1Luke 10:4Acts 19:12Exod 4:17Exod 7:19-202 Kgs 2:8Acts 3:16

2 Kings 4:3030The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:2Ruth 1:16-182 Kgs 2:4Exod 33:12-16

2 Kings 4:3131Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him, “The child did not wake up.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:111 Kgs 18:261 Kgs 18:291 Sam 14:371 Sam 28:6Acts 19:13-17Dan 12:2Eph 5:14Ezek 14:3Job 14:12

2 Kings 4:3232When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:17John 11:17Luke 8:52-53

2 Kings 4:3333He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:62 Kgs 4:4Acts 9:40Jas 5:13-181 Kgs 17:20-21Luke 8:511 Kgs 18:26-272 Kgs 5:112 Kgs 6:17-182 Kgs 6:20

2 Kings 4:3434He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. As he bent down across him, the boy’s skin grew warm.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:21Acts 20:10

2 Kings 4:3535Elisha went back and walked around in the house. Then he got up on the bed again and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 13:212 Kgs 8:51 Kgs 17:222 Kgs 8:1Acts 9:40John 11:43-44Luke 7:14-15Luke 8:55

2 Kings 4:3636Elisha called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:351 Kgs 17:23Luke 7:15

2 Kings 4:3737She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:351 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 2:152 Kgs 4:27

2 Kings 4:3838Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was a famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:12 Kgs 2:32 Kgs 8:1Acts 22:3Luke 10:39Lev 26:261 Sam 19:201 Sam 7:16-172 Sam 21:1Acts 10:38

2 Kings 4:3939Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:15Isa 5:4Jer 2:21Matt 15:13

2 Kings 4:4040The stew was poured out for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 16:18Exod 10:17Exod 15:231 Kgs 17:182 Kgs 1:112 Kgs 1:132 Kgs 4:9Deut 33:12 Kgs 1:9

2 Kings 4:4141He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 2:21Exod 15:251 Cor 1:252 Kgs 5:102 Kgs 6:6Acts 28:5John 9:6

2 Kings 4:4242Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet —twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 9:7John 6:13John 6:9Matt 14:16-211 Sam 9:42 Kgs 7:1Matt 15:32-381 Cor 9:112 Chr 11:13-142 Kgs 4:38

2 Kings 4:4343But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord has said, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 9:13Matt 14:20John 6:9John 6:11-13Matt 16:8-10Luke 9:17Mark 6:37-39Matt 14:16-17Matt 15:33-34Matt 15:37

2 Kings 4:4444So he set it before them; they ate and had some left over, just as in the Lord’s message.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

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