2 Kings 4:32
When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.
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- 1 Kgs 17:17 : 17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
- Luke 8:52-53 : 52 Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said,“Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep!” 53 And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.
- John 11:17 : 17 Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
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- 2 Kgs 4:29-313 verses87%
29 Elisha told Gehazi,“Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child’s face.”
30 The mother of the child said,“As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back.
31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him,“The child did not wake up.”
- 2 Kgs 4:17-215 verses80%
17 The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.
19 He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”
20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
21 She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
- 2 Kgs 4:33-375 verses80%
33 He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the LORD.
34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin grew warm.
35 Elisha went back and walked around in the house. Then he got up on the bed again and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36 Elisha called to Gehazi and said,“Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her,“Take your son.”
37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.
- 1 Kgs 17:17-237 verses77%
17 After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.
18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
19 He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
20 Then he called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?”
21 He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD,“O LORD, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”
22 The LORD answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.
23 Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said,“See, your son is alive!”
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12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.
- 2 Kgs 8:4-52 verses74%
4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s servant, and said,“Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”
5 While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. Gehazi said,“My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”
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17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.
- 2 Kgs 4:11-122 verses74%
11 One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.
12 He told his servant Gehazi,“Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” So he did so and she came to him.
- 2 Sam 12:18-192 verses73%
18 On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said,“While the child was still alive he would not listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!”
19 When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants,“Is the child dead?” They replied,“Yes, he’s dead.”
- 2 Kgs 13:20-212 verses73%
20 Elisha died and was buried. Moabite raiding parties invaded the land at the beginning of the year.
21 One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.
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39 When he entered he said to them,“Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep!”
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1 Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
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14 Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said,“My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!”
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4 Therefore this is what the LORD has said,“You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.
- 1 Kgs 3:19-213 verses72%
19 This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.
20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”
- 2 Kgs 4:14-152 verses72%
14 So he asked Gehazi,“What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied,“She has no son, and her husband is old.”
15 Elisha told him,“Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.
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37 So the king died and was taken to Samaria, where they buried him.
- 2 Kgs 1:16-172 verses71%
16 Elijah said to the king,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Is it because there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek a message? Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’”
17 And he did die in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Elijah. In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son.
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32 Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. The king sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the leaders,“Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him.”
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10 Elisha said to him,“Go and tell him,‘You will surely recover,’ but the LORD has revealed to me that he will surely die.”
- 1 Kgs 13:30-312 verses70%
30 He put the body into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying,“Ah, my brother!”
31 After he buried him, he said to his sons,“When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
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27 But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said,“Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The LORD has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”
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52 Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said,“Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep!”
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7 Elisha Meets with Hazael Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king was told,“The prophet has come here.”
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15 Then Nathan went to his home. The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and the child became very ill.