2 Kings 4:11
9 Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
10 Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
13 and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
- KJV
- And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
- WEB
- One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
- ASV
- And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.
- DARBY
- And it came to pass on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the upper chamber, and lay there.
- BLB
- And the day came to pass that he came there, and he turned aside to the upper room and lay down there.
- ÅB
- Så kom han dit en dag og tok inn i tak-kammeret og la seg der.
- OTB
- En dag kom han dit og gikk inn i det øvre rommet og la seg der.
- B1930
- Så kom han dit en dag og tok inn i tak-kammeret og la sig der.