Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.