2 Kings 4:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.

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  • 2 Sam 19:13 : 13 Say you to Amasa, Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
  • 2 Sam 19:32-38 : 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. 33 The king said to Barzillai, Come you over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem. 34 Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35 I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king? 36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? 37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you. 38 The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you.
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
  • 2 Kgs 3:15-18 : 15 But now bring me a minstrel. It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him. 16 He said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches. 17 For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, and you shall drink, both you and your cattle and your animals. 18 This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
  • 2 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
  • 2 Kgs 8:3-6 : 3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and 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 9:5 : 5 When he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain.
  • Ps 37:3 : 3 Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
  • Matt 10:40-42 : 40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward: and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. 42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
  • Luke 9:3-5 : 3 He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece. 4 Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there. 5 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."
  • Rom 16:2 : 2 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
  • Rom 16:6 : 6 Greet Mary, who labored much for us.
  • Phil 4:18-19 : 18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Thess 5:12-13 : 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-8 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out. 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
  • 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, 17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me 18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
  • Heb 6:10 : 10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
  • Gen 14:24 : 24 Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."
  • Ruth 1:1-4 : 1 It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there. 3 Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. 4 They took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:7-12
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    7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.

    8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

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

    10Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.

    11It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:14-16
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    14He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, Most assuredly she has no son, and her husband is old.

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-30
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    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.

    23He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.

    24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you.

    25So 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, yonder is the Shunammite:

    26please 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.

    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, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.

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

    29Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and 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: and lay my staff on the face of the child.

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
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    36He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. When she was 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 8:3-6
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    3It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

    4Now 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.

    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.

    6When 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
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    1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

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

  • 2 Kgs 5:2-4
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    2The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

    3She said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.

    4One went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden who is of the land of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-19
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    15Now 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.

    16For 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.

    17Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.

    18Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

    19The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
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    26He 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 oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?

  • 2 Sam 14:11-13
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    11Then said she, 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, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

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

    13The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

  • Ruth 2:13
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    13Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.

  • 2 Sam 14:8
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    8The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
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    39As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
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    5The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 1 Sam 1:26
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    26She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 19:36
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    36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

  • 2 Kgs 6:12
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    12One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.

  • 1 Kgs 17:18
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    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!

  • 2 Sam 13:13
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    13I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.

  • Ruth 3:16
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    16When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter? She told her all that the man had done to her.

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
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    26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

  • 1 Kgs 2:17
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    17He said, Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you 'no'), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.