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2 Kings 4:21

Then shee went vp, and layed him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the doore vpon him, and went out.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Elisha;   Miracles;   Shunammite;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abraham;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gehazi;   Marriage;   Medicine;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gehazi ;   Shunammite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gehazi;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.
Hebrew Names Version
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] on him, and went out.
King James Version
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
English Standard Version
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.
New Century Version
So she took him up and laid him on Elisha's bed. Then she shut the door and left.
New English Translation
She went up and laid him down on the prophet's bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
Amplified Bible
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door [of the small upper room] behind him and left.
New American Standard Bible
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and left.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.
Contemporary English Version
She carried him upstairs to Elisha's room and laid him across the bed. Then she walked out and shut the door behind her.
Complete Jewish Bible
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door on him and went out.
Darby Translation
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
Easy-to-Read Version
The woman laid the boy on the bed of Elisha, the man of God. Then she shut the door to that room and went outside.
George Lamsa Translation
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the prophet of God, and shut the door upon him and went out.
Good News Translation
She carried him up to Elisha's room, put him on the bed and left, closing the door behind her.
Lexham English Bible
She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door, and went out behind it.
Literal Translation
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And she wente vp, and layed him vpo the bed of the man of God, & shut the dore, and wete forth,
American Standard Version
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
Bible in Basic English
Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And she went vp, and laide him on the bed of the man of God, & shut [the doore] vpon him, and went out,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
King James Version (1611)
And she went vp, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the doore vpon him, and went out.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of god; and she shut the door upon him, and went out.
English Revised Version
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
Berean Standard Bible
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli she stiede, and leide hym on the litil bed of the man of God, and closide the dore.
Young's Literal Translation
And she goeth up, and layeth him on the bed of the man of God, and shutteth [the door] upon him, and goeth out,
Update Bible Version
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] on him, and went out.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out.
World English Bible
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] on him, and went out.
New King James Version
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.
New Living Translation
She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there.
New Life Bible
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. She shut the door behind him, and went out.
New Revised Standard
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door on him, and left.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, - and shut him in, and then went out.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,
Revised Standard Version
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
THE MESSAGE
She took him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in alone, and left.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out.

Contextual Overview

18 And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father, and to the reapers. 19 And he sayde to his father, Mine head, mine head. Who sayd to his seruant, Beare him to his mother. 20 And hee tooke him & brought him to his mother, and hee sate on her knees till noone, and dyed. 21 Then shee went vp, and layed him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the doore vpon him, and went out. 22 Then she called to her husband, & sayd, Send with me, I pray thee, one of the yong men and one of the asses: for I will haste to the man of God, and come againe. 23 And he sayd, Wherefore wilt thou goe to him to day? it is neither newe moone nor Sabbath day. And she answered, All shalbe well. 24 Then she sadled an asse, and sayde to her seruant, Driue, and goe forward: staye not for me to get vp, except I bid thee. 25 So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel. And when the man of God sawe her ouer against him, he sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Beholde, the Shunammite. 26 Runne nowe, I say, to meete her, and say vnto her, Art thou in health? is thine husband in health? and is the child in health? And she answered, We are in health. 27 And when shee came to the man of God vnto the moutaine, she caught him by his feete: and Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away: but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soule is vexed within her, and the Lorde hath hid it from me, and hath not told it mee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the bed: 2 Kings 4:10, 1 Kings 17:19

Cross-References

Genesis 4:11
Now therefore thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thine hand.
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till the grounde, it shall not henceforth yeelde vnto thee her strength: a vagabond and a runnagate shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 31:27
Wherfore diddest thou flie so secretly and steale away from me, and diddest not tel me, that I might haue sent thee foorth with mirth & with songs, with timbrel and with harpe?
Job 21:12
They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
Isaiah 5:12
And the harpe and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes: but they regard not the worke of the Lorde, neither consider the worke of his handes.
Amos 6:5
They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she went up,.... Into the little chamber built for the prophet:

and laid him on the bed of the man of God; not from any imagination of any virtue in it to bring her child to life; though she might think of the prophet, and have faith that he could raise it to life, as Elijah raised the widow of Zarephath's son laid on his bed, of which she might have heard; but this being a private room, and into which none went, she laid it here to conceal its death from her husband and family, and to prevent grief, and that they might not bury it until she returned:

and shut the door upon him; that no creature might enter, and, do any damage to his corpse:

and went out; not out of the chamber, that she did before she shut the door, but out of the house.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:21. Laid him on the bed of the man of God — She had no doubt heard that Elijah had raised the widow's son of Zarephath to life; and she believed that he who had obtained this gift from God for her, could obtain his restoration to life.


 
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