2 Kings 4:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:28 : 28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
  • Gen 18:10 : 10 And he said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life; and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
  • Gen 18:12-15 : 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have grown old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 13 And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old? 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but you did laugh.
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin, and to kill my son?
  • 1 Kgs 18:9 : 9 And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
  • 2 Kgs 2:19 : 19 And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, I pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the ground barren.
  • 2 Kgs 5:10-11 : 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean. 11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
  • Luke 1:18-20 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years. 19 The angel answering said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. 20 And behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.
  • Gen 17:16-17 : 16 And I will bless her and give you a son also by her; yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall come from her. 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.
  • Luke 1:30-31 : 30 The angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call His name JESUS.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    17And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.

    18And when the child was grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

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

    22And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the young men, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

    23And he said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

    24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; do not slacken your pace for me, unless I tell you.

    25So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:

    26Run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

    27And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.

    28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

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

    12And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

    13And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? Would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.

    14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no child, and her husband is old.

    15And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

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

    26And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here, praying to the LORD.

    27For this child I prayed; and the LORD has granted me my petition which I asked of him:

  • Judg 13:3
    73%

    3And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, you are barren and have no children: but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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

    36And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up your son.

    37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

  • Gen 18:10
    73%

    10And he said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life; and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

  • Gen 18:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13And the LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?

    14Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

    15Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but you did laugh.

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

    17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

    18And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin, and to kill my son?

    19And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her arms, and carried him up into the loft where he stayed, and laid him upon his own bed.

    20And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have You also brought calamity upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    72%

    30And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose, and followed her.

  • 1 Sam 1:11
    72%

    11And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your maidservant, and remember me, and not forget your maidservant, but will give your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    71%

    24And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.

  • 1 Sam 1:20
    71%

    20So it came to pass, when the time had come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
    71%

    20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Luke 1:36
    71%

    36Now, indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
    71%

    12Then the woman said, Let your maidservant, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak on.

  • Gen 21:2
    71%

    2For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • 2 Kgs 4:9
    71%

    9And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go you and your household, and stay wherever you can stay: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land for seven years."

    2And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

    3And it happened at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went to plead to the king for her house and for her land.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.

    2And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a pot of oil.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    70%

    20And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Fear not; for you have borne a son. But she did not answer, nor did she regard it.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    70%

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • Judg 13:7
    70%

    7But he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    69%

    5And it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."

  • 1 Sam 2:20
    69%

    20And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give you descendants from this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went to their own home.

  • Rom 9:9
    69%

    9For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    69%

    7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live on the rest.

  • Ruth 3:16
    69%

    16And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    69%

    28And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.