2 Kings 4:14

World English Bible (2000)

He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:2-3 : 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
  • Gen 17:17 : 17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
  • Gen 18:10-14 : 10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  • Gen 30:1 : 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
  • 1 Sam 1:2 : 2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
  • 1 Sam 1:8 : 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? 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 child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 4:9-13
    5 verses
    82%

    9 She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

    10 Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."

    11 One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there.

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

    13 He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

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

    15 He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door.

    16 He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

    17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

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

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

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

    22 She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."

    23 He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."

    24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don't slow down for me, unless I ask you to."

    25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

    26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" She answered, "It is well."

    27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

    28 Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"

    29 Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the child."

    30 The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

    31 Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."

    32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
    2 verses
    77%

    36 He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

    2 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.

    3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

    4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done."

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

    6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

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

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

    17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

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

    19 He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed.

    20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?"

  • 2 Sam 14:5
    72%

    5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    72%

    7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."

  • 2 Kgs 5:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, "Where did you come from, Gehazi?" He said, "Your servant went nowhere."

    26 He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

  • 2 Kgs 5:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 She said to her mistress, "I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy."

    4 Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, "The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this."

  • Luke 1:18
    69%

    18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    68%

    20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son." But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
    68%

    12 Then the woman said, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

  • 1 Kgs 14:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

    5 Yahweh said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman."

  • Luke 1:7
    68%

    7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

  • 2 Kgs 5:21
    68%

    21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

  • 2 Sam 14:15
    68%

    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

  • Gen 18:11
    68%

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.