2 Kings 4:37
35 Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
39 One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
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Compare
- BSB
- She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
- KJV
- Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
- WEB
- Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.
- ASV
- Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
- DARBY
- And she came and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
- BLB
- And she went in and fell at his feet, and she bowed herself to the earth. And she lifted her son and went out.
- ÅB
- Og hun kom og falt ned for hans føtter og bøyde seg til jorden; så tok hun sin sønn og gikk ut.
- OTB
- Da kom hun inn og falt ned ved hans føtter og bøyde seg til jorden. Og hun tok opp sin sønn og gikk ut.
- B1930
- Og hun kom og falt ned for hans føtter og bøide sig til jorden; så tok hun sin sønn og gikk ut.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 11:35
Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.
Read in context2 Kings 2:15
When the sons of the prophets who were facing him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.
Read in context1 Kings 17:24
Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”
Read in context2 Kings 4:27
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.”
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