2 Kings 4:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

It 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.

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  • Josh 19:18 : 18 Their border was to Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and 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 It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber 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 fell on a 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 she-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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 4:9-18
    10 verses
    82%

    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.

    13He 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.

    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.

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

    18When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-27
    7 verses
    76%

    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.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    75%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
    73%

    15Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-38
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    38Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth 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 8:1-6
    6 verses
    72%

    1Now 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.

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

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 17:15
    72%

    15She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.

  • 1 Kgs 17:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.

    10So 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.

    11As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.

  • 1 Sam 28:22-24
    3 verses
    70%

    22Now 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.

    23But 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.

    24The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread of it:

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    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 4:42
    70%

    42There came a man from Baal Shalishah, 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.

  • 1 Kgs 13:19
    69%

    19So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
    69%

    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 17:17
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:13
    68%

    13Elijah 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 forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.

  • 2 Kgs 4:44
    68%

    44So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, according to the word of Yahweh.

  • Luke 4:25
    68%

    25But 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.

  • Judg 19:5
    68%

    5It 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.

  • Gen 19:3
    67%

    3He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    67%

    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.