2 Kings 4:20

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The servant carried the boy to his mother, and the child sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

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  • Luke 7:12 : 12 As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her.
  • John 11:3 : 3 So the sisters sent a message to him, saying, 'Lord, the one you love is sick.'
  • John 11:5 : 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.
  • John 11:14 : 14 So Jesus told them plainly, 'Lazarus has died.'
  • Gen 22:2 : 2 Then God said, 'Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.'
  • Gen 37:3 : 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was the child of his old age, and he made him a robe of many colors.
  • Gen 37:5 : 5 One time Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
  • 1 Kgs 17:17 : 17 After 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.
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
  • Isa 66:13 : 13 As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 24:16-18 : 16 Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow. 17 Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your mustache, and do not eat the bread of mourning. 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded.
  • Luke 2:35 : 35 (And a sword will pierce your own soul as well), so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

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  • 2 Kgs 4:17-19
    3 verses
    84%

    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.

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-23
    7 verses
    82%

    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?"

    21Elijah stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, "O LORD my God, please let the boy’s life return to him."

    22The LORD heard Elijah’s prayer, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.

    23Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, 'Look, your son is alive.'

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-37
    8 verses
    79%

    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.

    33He went in, shut the door behind them both, and prayed to the LORD.

    34Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched out over him, the boy’s flesh grew warm.

    35Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the house. Then he went up and stretched out over the boy again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

    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 4:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    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."

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

    19During the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.

    20So she got up in the middle of the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and laid him in her arms. She then placed her dead son in my arms.

    21When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I looked more closely at him in the morning light, I saw that it was not the son I had borne.

  • 2 Sam 12:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21His attendants asked him, 'Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!'

    22David answered, 'While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.''

    23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
    72%

    12Now, get up and go back to your house. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    71%

    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.

  • Luke 7:15
    71%

    15The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

  • 2 Sam 12:16-19
    4 verses
    71%

    16David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying on the ground in sackcloth.

    17The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he refused, and he would not eat any food with them.

    18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, 'While the child was still alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

    19David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized that the child was dead. 'Is the child dead?' he asked. 'Yes,' they replied, 'he is dead.'

  • 1 Sam 1:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24After she had weaned him, she took him along with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. The boy was young.

    25They slaughtered the bull and brought the boy to Eli.

  • 2 Kgs 4:27
    70%

    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.'

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

    16Elijah said to the king, 'This is what the LORD says: "You have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to consult? Because of this, you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will surely die."'

    17So Ahaziah died, just as the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken had declared. Since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    69%

    28Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

  • 1 Kgs 14:17
    69%

    17Jeroboam’s wife got up, left, and went to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

  • Ruth 4:16
    69%

    16Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became his nurse.

  • 2 Kgs 13:14
    69%

    14Now Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die. Joash king of Israel came down to him, wept over him, and said, 'My father, my father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!'

  • 2 Kgs 4:11
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
    68%

    4Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will surely die.' And Elijah departed.

  • 1 Kgs 13:31
    68%

    31After burying him, the prophet said to his sons, 'When I die, bury me in the same tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.'

  • 2 Sam 14:11
    68%

    11She said, "Let the king swear by the LORD your God that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy and that they will not eliminate my son." The king said, "As surely as the LORD lives, not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground."

  • Luke 7:12
    68%

    12As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    68%

    37So the king died and was brought to Samaria, where they buried him.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    68%

    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!"