2 Kings 4:14

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Elisha asked, "What then can be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."

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  • Gen 15:2-3 : 2 Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children, so a servant in my household will be my heir."
  • Gen 17:17 : 17 Abraham fell facedown and laughed, saying to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
  • Gen 18:10-14 : 10 Then one of them said, 'I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.' Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well along in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, 'After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?' 13 Then the LORD said to Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh, saying, “Can I really bear a child when I am old?”' 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time next year, I will return to you, and Sarah will have a son.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 30:1 : 1 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing children for Jacob, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, 'Give me children, or I will die!'
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren and had no children.
  • 1 Sam 1:2 : 2 He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other was Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
  • 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her, 'Hannah, why are you crying? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?'
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:9-13
    5 verses
    82%

    9She said to her husband, "Look, I know that this is a holy man of God who regularly passes by us."

    10Let’s make a small room on the roof with walls and furnish it with a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then, whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.

    11One day, when Elisha came, he went up to the upper room and lay down there.

    12He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called her, and she stood before him.

    13Elisha said to him, "Tell her this: 'You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Should I speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She replied, "I am content to live among my own people."

  • 2 Kgs 4:15-18
    4 verses
    81%

    15Elisha said, "Call her." So Gehazi called her, and she came and stood in the doorway.

    16Then Elisha said, "At this time next year, you will be holding a son in your arms." She replied, "No, my lord, man of God, do not deceive your servant."

    17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the appointed time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

    18The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-32
    12 verses
    77%

    21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

    22She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God and come back."

    23He asked, "Why are you going to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath." She replied, "It is well."

    24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you."

    25So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When Elisha saw her in the distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman!"

    26Now run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' And she answered, 'Everything is all right.'

    27When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, 'Leave her alone! She is deeply troubled, but the LORD has hidden the reason from me and has not told me.'

    28She said, 'Did I ask for a son from my lord? Didn’t I say, “Do not raise my hopes”?'

    29Elisha said to Gehazi, 'Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff, and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet them, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy's face.'

    30But the boy’s mother said, 'As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.' So he got up and followed her.

    31Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, 'The boy has not awakened.'

    32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the boy, lying dead on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
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    77%

    36Elisha called Gehazi and said, 'Call the Shunammite woman.' So he called her, and when she came, he said, 'Take your son.'

    37She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, take your household, and go live in whatever place you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years."

    2So the woman arose and acted according to the word of the man of God. She departed with her household and lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

    3At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

    4Meanwhile, the king was speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me about all the great deeds Elisha has done."

    5As Gehazi was recounting how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had restored came to cry out to the king about her house and her land. Gehazi said, "My lord the king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"

    6The king questioned the woman, and she told him her story. Then the king assigned an official to her and said, "Restore everything that belongs to her, as well as all the produce of the field from the day she left the land until now."

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1A certain woman, the wife of one of the prophets, cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. Now the creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves."

    2Elisha said to her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" She replied, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of oil."

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
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    72%

    17After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

    18She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"

    19Elijah said to her, "Give me your son." He took the boy from her arms, brought him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

    20Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy upon the widow I am staying with by causing her son to die?"

  • 2 Sam 14:5
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    5The king said to her, "What is troubling you?" She replied, "Truly, I am a widow; my husband has died.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
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    7She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left."

  • 2 Kgs 5:25-26
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    70%

    25When Gehazi went inside and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, 'Where have you been, Gehazi?' He answered, 'Your servant didn’t go anywhere.'

    26But Elisha said to him, 'Was my spirit not with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, male servants, and female servants?'

  • 2 Kgs 5:3-4
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    3She said to her mistress, 'If only my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.'

    4Naaman went and told his master, saying, 'This is what the girl from the land of Israel said.'

  • Luke 1:18
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    18Zechariah said to the angel, 'How can I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.'

  • 1 Sam 4:20
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    20As she was dying, the women attending her said, 'Don’t despair, you have given birth to a son.' But she did not answer or pay attention.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
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    12Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."

  • 1 Kgs 14:4-5
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    4Jeroboam's wife did as he said: she arose, went to Shiloh, and arrived at the house of Ahijah. Now, Ahijah could no longer see because his eyes had grown dim due to his age.

    5But the LORD had already told Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such-and-such to her. When she arrives, she will be pretending to be someone else."

  • Luke 1:7
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    7But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

  • 2 Kgs 5:21
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    21So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, 'Is everything all right?'

  • 2 Sam 14:15
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    15Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king—perhaps the king will grant the request of his servant.

  • Gen 18:11
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    11Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well along in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.