2 Kings 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • 2 Kgs 4:28 : 28 Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"
  • Gen 18:10 : 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.
  • Gen 18:12-15 : 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." 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 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!"
  • 1 Kgs 18:9 : 9 He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
  • 2 Kgs 2:19 : 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries."
  • 2 Kgs 5:10-11 : 10 Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again 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 Yahweh 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, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been 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 can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years." 19 The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news. 20 Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."
  • Gen 17:16-17 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." 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 17:21 : 21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."
  • Luke 1:30-31 : 30 The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    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 4:22-28
    7 verses
    79%

    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?"

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

    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."

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

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

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

    26 She said, "Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

    27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

  • Judg 13:3
    73%

    3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

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

    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.

  • Gen 18:10
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 18:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    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."

    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • 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 Kgs 4:30
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 1:11
    72%

    11 She vowed a vow, and said, "Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head."

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    71%

    24 The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth."

  • 1 Sam 1:20
    71%

    20 It happened, when the time had come, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], "Because I have asked him of Yahweh."

  • 1 Kgs 3:20
    71%

    20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

  • Luke 1:36
    71%

    36 Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

  • 2 Sam 14:12
    71%

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

  • Gen 21:2
    71%

    2 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%

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    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 Sam 4:20
    70%

    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 14:16
    70%

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

  • Judg 13:7
    70%

    7 but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    69%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 2:20
    69%

    20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.

  • Rom 9:9
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    69%

    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."

  • Ruth 3:16
    69%

    16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done to her.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    69%

    28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'