2 Kings 4:28
26 Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
29 So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
30 And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
- KJV
- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
- WEB
- Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
- ASV
- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
- DARBY
- And she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
- BLB
- And she said, “Did I ask a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
- ÅB
- Hun sa: Har jeg vel bedt min herre om en sønn? Sa jeg ikke: Du må ikke narre meg?
- OTB
- Da sa hun, "Ba jeg om en sønn fra min herre? Sa jeg ikke, 'Ikke villed meg'?"
- B1930
- Hun sa: Har jeg vel bedt min herre om en sønn? Sa jeg ikke: Du må ikke narre mig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Read in context2 Kings 4:16
And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
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