2Kings:4
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2Kings:4:1 @
Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus ,
saying :
Thy servant my husband is dead ,
and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God ,
and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him .
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2Kings:4:2 @
And Eliseus said to her :
What wilt thou have me to do for thee ?
Tell me ,
what hast thou in thy house ?
And she answered :
I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil ,
to anoint me .
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2Kings:4:3 @
And he said to her :
Go ,
borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few .
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2Kings:4:4 @
And go in ,
and shut thy door ,
when thou art within ,
and thy sons :
and pour out thereof into all those vessels :
and when they are full take them away .
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2Kings:4:5 @
So the woman went ,
and shut the door upon her ,
and upon her sons :
they brought her the vessels ,
and she poured in .
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2Kings:4:6 @
And when the vessels were full ,
she said to her son :
Bring me yet a vessel .
And he answered :
I have no more .
And the oil stood .
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2Kings:4:7 @
And she came ,
and told the man of God .
And he said :
Go ,
sell the oil ,
and pay thy creditor :
and thou and thy sons live of the rest .
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2Kings:4:8 @
And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam :
now there was a great woman there ,
who detained him to eat bread ;
and as he passed often that way ,
he turned into her house to eat bread .
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2Kings:4:9 @
And she said to her husband :
I perceive that this is a holy man of God ,
who often passeth by us .
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2Kings:4:10 @
Let us therefore make him a little chamber ,
and put a little bed in it for him ,
and a table ,
and a stool ,
and a candlestick ,
that when he cometh to us ,
he may abide there
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2Kings:4:11 @
Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber ,
and rested there .
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2Kings:4:12 @
And he said to Giezi his servant Call this Sunamitess .
And when he had called her ,
and she stood before him ,
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2Kings:4:13 @
He said to his servant :
Say to her Behold thou hast diligently served us in all things ,
what wilt thou have me to de for thee ?
hast thou any business ,
and wilt thou that I speak to the king ,
or to the general of the army ?
And she answered :
I dwell in the midst of my own people .
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2Kings:4:14 @
And he said :
What will she then that I do for her ?
And Giezi said :
Do not ask ,
for she hath no son ,
and her husband is old .
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2Kings:4:15 @
Then he bid him call her :
And when she was called ,
and stood before the door .
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2Kings:4:16 @
He said to her :
At this time ,
and this same hour ,
if life accompany ,
thou shalt have a son in thy womb .
But she answered :
Do not ,
I beseech thee ,
my lord ,
thou man of God ,
do not lie to thy handmaid .
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2Kings:4:17 @
And the woman conceived ,
and brought forth a son in the time ,
and at the same hour ,
that Eliseus had said .
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2Kings:4:18 @
And the child grew .
And on a certain day ,
when he went out to his father to the reapers ,
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2Kings:4:19 @
He said to his father :
My head acheth ,
my head acheth .
But he said to his servant :
Take him ,
and carry him to his mother .
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2Kings:4:20 @
And when he had taken him ,
and brought him to his mother ,
she set him on her knees until noon ,
and then he died .
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2Kings:4:21 @
And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of God ,
and shut the door :
and going out ,
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2Kings:4:22 @
She called her husband ,
and said :
Send with me ,
I beseech thee ,
one of thy servants ,
and an ass that I may run to the man of God ,
and come again .
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2Kings:4:23 @
And he said to her :
Why dost thou go to him ?
to day is neither new moon nor sabbath .
She answered :
I will go .
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2Kings:4:24 @
And she saddled an ass ,
and commanded her servant :
Drive ,
and make haste ,
make no stay in going .
And do that which I bid thee .
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2Kings:4:25 @
So she went forward ,
and came to the man of God to mount Carmel :
and when the mall of God saw her coming towards ,
he said to Giezi his servant :
Behold that Sunamitess .
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2Kings:4:26 @
Go therefore to meet her ,
and say to her :
Is all well with thee ,
and with thy husband ,
and with thy son ?
and she answered :
Well .
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2Kings:4:27 @
And when she came to the man of God to the mount ,
she caught hold on his feet :
and Giezi came to remove her .
And the man of God said :
Let her alone for her soul is in anguish ,
and the Lord hath hid it from me ,
and hath not told me .
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2Kings:4:28 @
And she said to him :
Did I ask a son of my lord ?
did I not say to thee :
Do not deceive me ?
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2Kings:4:29 @
Then he said to Giezi :
Gird up thy loins ,
and take my staff in thy hand ,
and go .
If any man meet thee ,
salute him not :
and if any man salute thee ,
answer him not :
and lay my staff upon the face of the child .
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2Kings:4:30 @
But the mother of the child said :
As the Lord liveth ,
and as thy soul liveth ,
I will not leave thee .
He arose ,
therefore ,
and followed her .
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2Kings:4:31 @
But Giezi was gone before them ,
and laid the staff upon the face of the child ,
and there was no voice nor sense :
and he returned to meet him ,
and told him ,
saying :
The child is not risen .
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2Kings:4:32 @
Eliseus therefore went into the house ,
and behold the child lay dead on his bed .
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2Kings:4:33 @
And going in he shut the door upon him ,
and upon the child ,
and prayed to the Lord .
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2Kings:4:34 @
And he went up ,
and lay upon the child :
and he put his mouth upon his mouth ,
and his eyes upon his eyes ,
and his hands upon his hands :
and he bowed himself upon him ,
and the child '
s flesh grew warm .
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2Kings:4:35 @
Then he returned and walked in the house ,
once to and fro :
and he went up ,
and lay upon him :
and the child gaped seven times ,
and opened his eyes .
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2Kings:4:36 @
And he called Giezi ,
and said to him :
Call this Sunamitess .
And she being called ,
went in to him :
and he said :
Take up thy son .
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2Kings:4:37 @
She came and fell at his feet ,
and worshipped upon the ground :
and took up her son ,
and went out .
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2Kings:4:38 @
And Eliseus returned to Galgal ,
and there was a famine in the land ,
and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him .
And he said to one of his servants :
Set on the great pot ,
and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets .
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2Kings:4:39 @
And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs :
and he found something like a wild vine ,
and gathered of it wild gourds of the field ,
and filled his mantle ,
and coming back he shred them into the pot of pottage ,
for he knew not what it was .
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2Kings:4:40 @
And they poured it out for their companions to eat :
and when they had tasted of the pottage ,
they cried out ,
saying :
Death is in the pot ,
O man of God .
And they could not eat thereof .
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2Kings:4:41 @
But he said :
Bring some meal .
And when they had brought it ,
he cast it into the pot ,
and said :
Pour out for the people ,
that they may eat .
And there was now no bitterness in the pot .
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2Kings:4:42 @
And a certain man came from Baalsalisa bringing to the man of God bread of the firstfruits ,
twenty leaves of barley ,
and new corn in his scrip .
And he said :
Give to the people ,
that they may eat .
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2Kings:4:43 @
And his servant answered him :
How much is this ,
that I should set it before a hundred men ?
He said again :
Give to the people ,
that they may eat :
for thus saith the Lord :
They shall eat ,
and there shall be left .
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So he fief it before them :
and they ate ,
and there was left according to the word of the Lord .