2 Kings 4:8
It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
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- Josh 19:18 : 18 Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
- 2 Sam 19:32 : 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
- 1 Kgs 1:3 : 3 So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
- 2 Kgs 4:11-12 : 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.
- 2 Kgs 4:18 : 18 When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
- Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
- Job 32:9 : 9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
- Prov 7:21 : 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
- Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
- Luke 14:23 : 23 "The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
- Luke 24:29 : 29 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
- Judg 19:20 : 20 The old man said, "Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street."
- 1 Sam 28:4 : 4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
- Gen 19:3 : 3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- Acts 16:15 : 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
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- 2 Kgs 4:9-1810 verses82%
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."
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.
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 4:21-277 verses76%
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."
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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."
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15 Then he said to him, "Come home with me, and eat bread."
- 2 Kgs 4:36-383 verses72%
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.
38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."
- 2 Kgs 8:1-66 verses72%
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."
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15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
- 1 Kgs 17:9-113 verses71%
9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you."
10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."
11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."
- 1 Sam 28:22-243 verses70%
22 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way."
23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.
24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.
- 2 Kgs 4:1-22 verses70%
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."
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42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."
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19 So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
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26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
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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.
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13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son.
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44 So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the word of Yahweh.
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25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
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5 It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way."
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3 He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
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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.'