2 Kings 4:20

World English Bible (2000)

When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

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  • Luke 7:12 : 12 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
  • John 11:3 : 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."
  • John 11:5 : 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
  • John 11:14 : 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.
  • Gen 22:2 : 2 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
  • Gen 37:3 : 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
  • Gen 37:5 : 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
  • 1 Kgs 17:17 : 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.
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
  • Isa 66:13 : 13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem."
  • Ezek 24:16-18 : 16 Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. 17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don't cover your lips, and don't eat men's bread. 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
  • Luke 2:35 : 35 Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:17-19
    3 verses
    84%

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

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

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-23
    7 verses
    82%

    17It 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.

    18She 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!"

    19He 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.

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

    21He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again."

    22Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

    23Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives."

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-37
    8 verses
    79%

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

    31Gehazi 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."

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

    33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

    34He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.

    35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

    36He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come 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 she took up her son, and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

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

    22She 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."

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-21
    3 verses
    75%

    19This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

    20She 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.

    21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore."

  • 2 Sam 12:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread."

    22He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

    23But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."

  • 1 Kgs 14:12
    72%

    12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    71%

    20About 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.

  • Luke 7:15
    71%

    15He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

  • 2 Sam 12:16-19
    4 verses
    71%

    16David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

    17The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

    18It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"

    19But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."

  • 1 Sam 1:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh's house in Shiloh. The child was young.

    25They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

  • 2 Kgs 4:27
    70%

    27When 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."

  • 2 Kgs 1:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.'"

    17So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    69%

    28The 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.'

  • 1 Kgs 14:17
    69%

    17Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

  • Ruth 4:16
    69%

    16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

  • 2 Kgs 13:14
    69%

    14Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"

  • 2 Kgs 4:11
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
    68%

    4Now therefore thus says Yahweh, "You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die."'" Elijah departed.

  • 1 Kgs 13:31
    68%

    31It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

  • 2 Sam 14:11
    68%

    11Then she said, "Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth."

  • Luke 7:12
    68%

    12Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    68%

    37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 8:5
    68%

    5It 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."