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King James Version (1611 Edition)

2 Kings 4:22

And she called vnto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the yong men, and one of the asses, that I may runne to the man of God, and come againe.

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;   Prophet, Christ as;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ass;   Diseases;   Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ass;   Gehazi;   Marriage;   Medicine;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gehazi ;   Shunammite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Barley;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and come back again.”
Hebrew Names Version
She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
King James Version
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
English Standard Version
Then she called to her husband and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again."
New Century Version
She called to her husband, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. Then I can go quickly to the man of God and return."
New English Translation
She called to her husband, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return."
Amplified Bible
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."
New American Standard Bible
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."
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
And she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return."
Contemporary English Version
The woman called to her husband, "I need to see the prophet. Let me use one of the donkeys. Send a servant along with me, and let me leave now, so I can get back quickly."
Complete Jewish Bible
She called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants with a donkey. I must get to the man of God as fast as I can; I'll come straight back."
Darby Translation
And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I will run to the man of God, and come again.
Easy-to-Read Version
She called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey. Then I will go quickly to get the man of God and come back."
George Lamsa Translation
Then she called to her husband and said, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses, that I may go hastily to the prophet of God.
Good News Translation
Then she called her husband and said to him, "Send a servant here with a donkey. I need to go to the prophet Elisha. I'll be back as soon as I can."
Lexham English Bible
She called to her husband and said, "Please send one of the servants and one of the female donkeys for me, so that I can go quickly up to the man of God and return."
Literal Translation
And she called to her husband, and said, Please send to me one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I shall run to the man of God, and return.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& called hir hu?bande, & sayde vnto him: Sende me one of the seruautes, and an Asse, I wyl go quyckly vnto the man of God, and come agayne.
American Standard Version
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
Bible in Basic English
And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And called vnto her husband, & sayde: Send with me I pray thee one of the young men, and one of the asses: for I will runne to the man of God, and come againe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she called unto her husband, and said: 'Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come back.'
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she called her husband, and said, Send now for me one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I will ride quickly to the man of God, and return.
English Revised Version
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
Berean Standard Bible
And the woman called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And sche yede out, and clepide hir hosebonde, and seide, Y biseche, sende thou with me oon of the children, and an asse, and Y schal renne out `til to the man of God, and Y schal turne ayen.
Young's Literal Translation
and calleth unto her husband, and saith, `Send, I pray thee, to me, one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I run unto the man of God, and return.'
Update Bible Version
And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the attendants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
World English Bible
She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
New King James Version
Then she called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back."
New Living Translation
She sent a message to her husband: "Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back."
New Life Bible
Then she called to her husband and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return."
New Revised Standard
Then she called to her husband, and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she called unto her husband, and said - Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, - that I may run unto the man of God, and return!
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
Then she called to her husband, and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the asses, that I may quickly go to the man of God, and come back again."
THE MESSAGE
She then called her husband, "Get me a servant and a donkey so I can go to the Holy Man; I'll be back as soon as I can."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return."

Contextual Overview

18 And when the child was growen, it fell on a day that hee went out to his father, to the reapers. 19 And he said vnto his father, My head, my head: and he said to a ladde, Carie him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, hee sate on her knees till noone, and then died. 21 And she went vp, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the doore vpon him, and went out. 22 And she called vnto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the yong men, and one of the asses, that I may runne to the man of God, and come againe. 23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou goe to him to day? it is neither newe moone nor Sabbath. And shee said, It shalbe well. 24 Then she sadled an asse, and said to her seruant, Driue, and goe forward: slacke not thy riding for mee, except I bid thee. 25 So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel: and it came to passe when the man of God saw her afarre off, that hee said to Gehazi his seruant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: 26 Runne now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say vnto her, Is it wel with thee? is it wel with thy husband? is it wel with the child? And she answered, It is well. 27 And when shee came to the man of God to the hill, shee caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came neere to thrust her away. And the man of God saide, Let her alone, for her soule is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I may run: 2 Kings 4:24, 2 Kings 4:26, John 11:3, Acts 9:38

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:22 - General Proverbs 31:11 - General 2 Peter 1:21 - in old time

Cross-References

Exodus 25:3
And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; Gold, and siluer, and brasse,
Numbers 31:22
Onely the gold, and the siluer, the brasse, the yron, the tinne, and the lead,
Deuteronomy 8:9
A lande wherein thou shalt eate bread without scarcenes, thou shalt not lacke any thing in it: a lande whose stones are yron, and out of whose hils thou mayest digge brasse.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Thy shooes shall bee yron and brasse, and as thy dayes, so shall thy strength bee.
2 Chronicles 2:7
Send me now therefore a man, cunning to worke in gold and in siluer, and in brasse, and in yron, and in purple and crimson, and blew, and that can skil to graue, with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah, and in Ierusalem, whome Dauid my father did prouide.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she called unto her husband,.... In the field, who might be within call, or by a messenger she sent to him:

and said, send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again; intimating that she should not be long gone, but should return again presently; saying not a word of the death of the child, or of the occasion of her going.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men and one of the asses - All the “young men” and all the “asses” were in the harvest field, the young men cutting and binding the sheaves, and placing them upon carts or wains, the donkeys drawing these vehicles fully laden, to the threshing-floor. Compare Amos 2:13.


 
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