2 Kings 4:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

And he said, At this time appointed, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a sonne; she sayd, Oh my Lorde, thou man of God, doe not lye vnto thine handmayd.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:28 : 28 Then she said, Did I desire a sonne of my lord? did I not say, Deceiue me not?
  • Gen 18:10 : 10 And he saide, I will certainely come againe vnto thee according to ye time of life: and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne; Sarah heard in the tent doore, which was behinde him.
  • Gen 18:12-15 : 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her selfe, saying, After I am waxed olde, and my lord also, shall I haue lust? 13 And ye Lord saide vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainely beare a childe, which am olde? 14 (Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.) 15 But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraide; he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 And she said vnto Eliiah, What haue I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come vnto me to call my sinne to remembrance, and to slay my sonne?
  • 1 Kgs 18:9 : 9 And he said, What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest deliuer thy seruant into the hande of Ahab, to slay me?
  • 2 Kgs 2:19 : 19 And the men of the citie saide vnto Elisha, Beholde, we pray thee: the situation of this citie is pleasant, as thou, my lorde, seest, but the water is naught, and the ground baren.
  • 2 Kgs 5:10-11 : 10 And Elisha sent a messenger vnto him, saying, Go and wash thee in Iorden seuen times, and thy flesh shall come againe to thee, and thou shalt be clensed. 11 But Naaman was wroth and went away, and sayde, Beholde, I thought with my selfe, Hee will surely come out, and stande, and call on the Name of the Lorde his God and put his hand on the place, and heale the leprosie.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my feare, All men are lyers.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.
  • Luke 1:18-20 : 18 Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? For I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age. 19 And the Angell answered, and sayde vnto him, I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God, and am sent to speake vnto thee, & to shew thee these good tidings. 20 And beholde, thou shalt be domme, & not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.
  • Gen 17:16-17 : 16 And I will blesse her, & will also giue thee a sonne of her, yea, I will blesse her, and she shall be the mother of nations: Kings also of people shall come of her. 17 Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a childe be borne vnto him, that is an hundreth yeere olde? and shall Sarah that is ninetie yeere olde beare?
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But my couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.
  • Luke 1:30-31 : 30 Then the Angel saide vnto her, Feare not, Marie: for thou hast found fauour with God. 31 For loe, thou shalt conceiue in thy wobe, and beare a sonne, and shalt call his name Iesus.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:17-18
    2 verses
    89%

    17So the woman conceiued, & bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.

    18And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father, and to the reapers.

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-28
    7 verses
    79%

    22Then she called to her husband, & sayd, Send with me, I pray thee, one of the yong men and one of the asses: for I will haste to the man of God, and come againe.

    23And he sayd, Wherefore wilt thou goe to him to day? it is neither newe moone nor Sabbath day; she answered, All shalbe well.

    24Then she sadled an asse, and sayde to her seruant, Driue, and goe forward: staye not for me to get vp, except I bid thee.

    25So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel; when the man of God sawe her ouer against him, he sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Beholde, the Shunammite.

    26Runne nowe, I say, to meete her, and say vnto her, Art thou in health? is thine husband in health? and is the child in health? And she answered, We are in health.

    27And when shee came to the man of God vnto the moutaine, she caught him by his feete: and Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away: but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soule is vexed within her, and the Lorde hath hid it from me, and hath not told it mee.

    28Then she said, Did I desire a sonne of my lord? did I not say, Deceiue me not?

  • 2 Kgs 4:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12And sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Call this Shunammite: and when hee called her, she stood before him.

    13Then he sayd vnto him, Say vnto her now, Beholde, thou hast had all this great care for vs, what shall we doe for thee? Is there any thing to bee spoken for thee to the King or to the captaine of the hoste? And shee answered, I dwell among mine owne people.

    14Againe he sayde, What is then to be done for her? Then Gehazi answered, In deede she hath no sonne, and her husband is olde.

    15Then said he, Cal her; hee called her, and shee stoode in the doore.

  • 1 Sam 1:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And she said, Oh my Lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman that stoode with thee here praying vnto the Lord.

    27I prayed for this childe, and the Lord hath giuen me my desire which I asked of him.

  • Judg 13:3
    73%

    3And the Angel of the Lorde appeared vnto the woman, and said vnto her, Beholde nowe, thou art baren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Then he called Gehazi, and sayd, Call this Shunammite. So he called her, which came in vnto him; he said vnto her, Take thy sonne.

    37And she came, and fell at his feete, and bowed her selfe to the ground, and tooke vp her sonne, and went out.

  • Gen 18:10
    73%

    10And he saide, I will certainely come againe vnto thee according to ye time of life: and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne; Sarah heard in the tent doore, which was behinde him.

  • Gen 18:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13And ye Lord saide vnto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainely beare a childe, which am olde?

    14(Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.)

    15But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraide; he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
    4 verses
    72%

    17And after these things, the sonne of the wife of the house fell sicke, and his sicknesse was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

    18And she said vnto Eliiah, What haue I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come vnto me to call my sinne to remembrance, and to slay my sonne?

    19And he said vnto her, Giue me thy sonne; he tooke him out of her bosome, and caryed him vp into a chamber, where he abode, and laid him vpon his owne bed.

    20Then he called vnto the Lord, and sayde, O Lorde my God, hast thou punished also this widowe, with whome I soiourne, by killing her sonne?

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    72%

    30And the mother of the childe sayde, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. Therefore he arose, and followed her.

  • 1 Sam 1:11
    72%

    11Also she vowed a vowe, and sayd, O Lord of hostes, if thou wilt looke on the trouble of thine handmaide, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaide, but giue vnto thine handmaide a manchilde, then I will giue him vnto the Lord all the dayes of his life, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    71%

    24And the woman saide vnto Eliiah, Now I knowe that thou art a man of God, and that the worde of the Lord in thy mouth is true.

  • 1 Sam 1:20
    71%

    20For in processe of time Hannah conceiued, and bare a sonne, and she called his name Samuel, Because, said she, I haue asked him of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
    71%

    20And she rose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from my side, while thine handmaide slept, and layde him in her bosome, and layde her dead sonne in my bosome.

  • Luke 1:36
    71%

    36And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
    71%

    12Then the woman said, I pray thee, let thine handmayde speake a worde to my lord the King; he sayd, Say on.

  • Gen 21:2
    71%

    2For Sarah conceiued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, at the same season that God tolde him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:9
    71%

    9And she sayde vnto her husband, Beholde, I know now, that this is an holy man of God that passeth by vs continually.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1Then spake Elisha vnto the woman, whose sonne he had restored to life, saying, Vp, and goe, thou, and thine house, and soiourne where thou canst soiourne: for the Lorde hath called for a famine, and it commeth also vpon the land seuen yeeres.

    2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both shee and her housholde and soiourned in the lande of the Philistims seuen yeeres.

    3And at the seuen yeeres ende, the woman returned out of the lande of the Philistims, and went out to call vpon the King for her house and for her land.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1And one of the wiues of the sonnes of the Prophets cryed vnto Elisha, saying, Thy seruant mine husbande is dead, and thou knowest, that thy seruant did feare the Lord: and the creditour is come to take my two sonnes to bee his bondmen.

    2Then Elisha saide vnto her, What shall I do for thee? tell mee, what hast thou at home? And she sayd, Thine handmayd hath nothing at home, saue a pitcher of oyle.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    70%

    20And about the time of her death, the women that stoode about her, sayd vnto her, Feare not: for thou hast borne a sonne: but she answered not, nor regarded it.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    70%

    16For the King wil heare, to deliuer his handmayde out of the hande of the man that woulde destroy mee, and also my sonne from the inheritance of God.

  • Judg 13:7
    70%

    7But he saide vnto me, Beholde, thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne, and nowe thou shalt drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing: for the childe shalbe a Nazarite to God from his birth to the day of his death.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    69%

    5And as he told the King, howe he had restored one dead to life, behold, the woman, whose sonne he had raised to life, called vpon the King for her house and for her land. Then Gehazi sayd, My lorde, O King, this is the woman, and this is her sonne, whom Elisha restored to life.

  • 1 Sam 2:20
    69%

    20And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The Lord giue thee seede of this woman, for the petition that she asked of the Lord: and they departed vnto their place.

  • Rom 9:9
    69%

    9For this is a worde of promes, In this same time wil I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    69%

    7Then shee came and tolde the man of God; he saide, Goe, and sell the oyle, and pay them that thou art in det vnto, and liue thou and thy children of the rest.

  • Ruth 3:16
    69%

    16And when she came to her mother in law, she sayd, Who art thou, my daughter? And she tolde her all that the man had done to her,

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    69%

    28Also the King said vnto her, What ayleth thee? And she answered, This woman sayde vnto me, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate my sonne to morowe,