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2 Kings 4 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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The Widow’s Oil

(cf. 1Ki 17:14–16 )

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Now a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - Then he said, “Go, [fn]borrow containers [fn]elsewhere for yourself, empty containers from all your neighbors—do not get too few.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:4 - “Then you shall come in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour into all these containers; and you shall set aside what is full.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:5 - So she left him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they began bringing the containers to her, and she poured the oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:6 - When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” But he said to her, “There [fn]are no more containers.” Then the oil stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - So she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”

The Shunammite Woman

(cf. 1Ki 17:17–24 )

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Now a day came when Elisha went over to Shunem, where there was a [fn]prominent woman, and she urged him to eat [fn]food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat [fn]food.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9 - And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I am aware that this is a holy man of God passing by us repeatedly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - “Please, let’s make a little walled upper room, and let’s set up a bed for him there, and a table, a chair, and a lampstand; then it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

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Now [fn]one day he came there, and turned in to the upper room and [fn]rested.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:12 - Then he said to his servant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he had called her, she stood before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have taken trouble for us with all this [fn]care; what can I do for you? [fn]Would you like me to speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’” But she [fn]answered, “I live among my own people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:14 - So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi [fn]answered, “It is a fact that she has no son, and her husband is old.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:15 - He then said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - Then he said, “At this season [fn]next year, you are going to embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

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Now the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season [fn]the next year, as Elisha had told her.

The Shunammite’s Son

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When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” And his father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:20 - When he had carried him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her [fn]lap until noon, and then he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:21 - And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and left.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:22 - Then she called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - But he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” So she just said, “It will be fine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Drive the donkey and go on; do not slow down [fn]the pace for me unless I tell you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she went on and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.

When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, that person there is the Shunammite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - “Please run now to meet her and say to her, ‘Is it going well for you? Is it going well for your husband? Is it going well for the child?’” Then she [fn]answered, “It is going well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - But she came to the man of God at the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is [fn]troubled within her; and the LORD has concealed it from me and has not informed me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - Then she said, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not give me false hope’?”

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Then he said to Gehazi, “[fn]Get ready and take my staff in your hand, and go; if you meet anyone, do not [fn]greet him, and if anyone [fn]greets you, do not reply to him. And lay my staff on the boy’s face.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:30 - The mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:31 - Then Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or [fn]response. So he returned to meet him and informed him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.”

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When Elisha entered the house, behold the boy was dead, laid on his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:33 - So he entered and shut the door behind them both, and he prayed to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:34 - Then he got up on the bed and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, his hands on his hands, and he bent down on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:35 - Then he returned and walked in the house back and forth once, and went up and bent down on him; and the boy sneezed seven times, then the boy opened his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:36 - And he called Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:37 - Then she came in and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground, and she picked up her son and left.

The Poisonous Stew

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When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. [fn]As the sons of the prophets were sitting in front of him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - Then one went out into the field to gather mallow, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds; and he came and sliced them into the pot of stew, because they did not know what they were.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:40 - So they poured it out for the men to eat. But as they were eating the stew, they cried out and said, “You man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they were unable to eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:41 - Then he said, “Bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot, and said, “Pour it out for the people that they may eat.” Then there was nothing harmful in the pot.
(cf. Mat 14:13–21; 15:32–39 )

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Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give them to the people that they may eat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:43 - But his attendant said, “How am I to serve this to a hundred men?” Nevertheless he said, “Give them to the people that they may eat, for this is what the LORD says: ‘They shall eat and have some left over.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:44 - So he served it to them, and they ate and had some left over, in accordance with the word of the LORD.
See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit request
Lit from outside
Lit is...container
Lit great
Lit bread
Lit bread
Lit the day came that
Lit lay there
Lit fear
Lit Is it to speak
Lit said
Lit said
Lit when the time revives
Lit when the time revived
Lit knees
Lit riding
Lit said
Lit bitter
Lit Belt up your waist
Lit bless
Lit blesses
Lit attentiveness
Lit And
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2 Kings Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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