2 Kings 4:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 4:32 : 32 And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.
  • 1 Kgs 17:19 : 19 And 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.
  • 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
  • 2 Kgs 4:10 : 10 So let us make a little room on the wall; and put a bed there for him, and a table and a seat and a light; so that when he comes to us, he will be able to go in there.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:29-37
    9 verses
    82%

    29Then he said to Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.

    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 4:22-27
    6 verses
    80%

    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.

    23And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

    24Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.

    25So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;

    26Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.

    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 4:14-20
    7 verses
    79%

    14So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

    15Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.

    16And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

    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.

    20And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-21
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:4-7
    4 verses
    76%

    4Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

    5So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

    6And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped.

    7So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

  • 2 Kgs 4:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

    10So let us make a little room on the wall; and put a bed there for him, and a table and a seat and a light; so that when he comes to us, he will be able to go in there.

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

    12And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:17
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
    71%

    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 14:12
    70%

    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 Kgs 17:23
    70%

    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 8:2
    70%

    2So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

  • Josh 2:7
    69%

    7So the men went after them on the road to Jordan as far as the river-crossing: and when they had gone out after them, the door into the town was shut.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
    69%

    17Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her.

  • 2 Kgs 5:4
    69%

    4And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.

  • Judg 3:23
    68%

    23Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.

  • Judg 19:28
    68%

    28And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1
    68%

    1Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

  • 1 Kgs 17:11
    68%

    11And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.