2 Kings 4:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

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  • Luke 7:12 : 12 Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.
  • John 11:3 : 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.
  • John 11:5 : 5 Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
  • John 11:14 : 14 Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.
  • Gen 22:2 : 2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
  • Gen 37:3 : 3 Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.
  • Gen 37:5 : 5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
  • 1 Kgs 17:17 : 17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
  • Isa 66:13 : 13 As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 24:16-18 : 16 Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes. 17 Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief. 18 So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.
  • Luke 2:35 : 35 (And a sword will go through your heart;) so that the secret thoughts of men may come to light.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:17-19
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    17Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

    18Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

    19And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-23
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    82%

    17Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

    18And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

    19And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

    20And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

    21And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.

    22And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.

    23And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-37
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    30But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.

    31And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake.

    32And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.

    33So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.

    34Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm.

    35Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.

    36And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.

    37And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-22
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    79%

    21Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.

    22And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

    20And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

    21And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

  • 2 Sam 12:21-23
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    21Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.

    22And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

    23But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
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    12Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the child will take place.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
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    20And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.

  • Luke 7:15
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    15And the dead man got up, and words came from his lips. And he gave him to his mother.

  • 2 Sam 12:16-19
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    16So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

    17And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

    18And then on the seventh day the child's death took place. And David's servants were in fear of giving him the news of the child's death: for they said, Truly, while the child was still living he gave no attention when we said anything to him: what will he do to himself if we give him word that the child is dead?

    19But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.

  • 1 Sam 1:24-25
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    24Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.

    25And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli.

  • 2 Kgs 4:27
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    27And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

  • 2 Kgs 1:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

    17So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
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    28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

  • 1 Kgs 14:17
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    17Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death came to the child.

  • Ruth 4:16
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    16And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.

  • 2 Kgs 13:14
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    14Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

  • 2 Kgs 4:11
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    11Now one day, when he had gone there, he went into the little room and took his rest there.

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
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    4Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

  • 1 Kgs 13:31
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    31And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.

  • 2 Sam 14:11
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    11Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

  • Luke 7:12
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    12Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
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    5And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.