GOD in the Old Testament - 2 Kings - Part 10

2 Kings 4:16-17  (continued)

"About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms."

    "No, my lord!" she objected. "Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!"

    But the woman became pregnant and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

 

2 Kings 4:20-21  

After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

 

2 Kings 4:22  

    She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return." 

 

2 Kings 4:25-27  

So she set out and came to the man of God at Carmel.

    When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the Shunammite!  Run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' "

    Everything is all right," she said.

    When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me why." 

 

2 Kings 4:40  

The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

 

2 Kings 4:42  

    A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha said. 

(see all 2 Kings 4) 

    

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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