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Green's Literal Translation

2 Kings 4:20

And he carried him, and brought him to his mother. And he sat on her knees until noon, and died.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Elisha;   Miracles;   Shunammite;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Cares of Motherhood;   Children;   Family;   Home;   Labour;   Love;   Maternal Love;   Motherhood, Cares of;   Mothers;   Parental;   Parents;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Shunammite;   Stories for Children;   Woman's;   Women;   Work, Women's;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;   Parents;   Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disease;   Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Lap (Noun);   Noon;   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®
So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.
Hebrew Names Version
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
King James Version
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
English Standard Version
And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.
New Century Version
The servant took him to his mother, and he lay on his mother's lap until noon. Then he died.
New English Translation
So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
Amplified Bible
When he had carried and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
New American Standard Bible
When he had carried him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee tooke him & brought him to his mother, and hee sate on her knees till noone, and dyed.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he carried him and brought him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Contemporary English Version
The servant picked up the boy and carried him to his mother. The boy lay on her lap all morning, and by noon he was dead.
Complete Jewish Bible
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he lay on her lap until noon; and then he died.
Darby Translation
And he carried him, and brought him to his mother; and he sat on her knees till noon, and died.
Easy-to-Read Version
The servant took the boy to his mother. The boy sat on his mother's lap until noon. Then he died.
George Lamsa Translation
And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon and then died.
Good News Translation
The servant carried the boy back to his mother, who held him in her lap until noon, at which time he died.
Lexham English Bible
So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he toke him, and broughte him to his mother: and she set him vpon hir lappe vntyll ye noone daye, & the he dyed.
American Standard Version
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Bible in Basic English
And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when he had taken him & brought him to his mother, he sate on her knees till noone, and then dyed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
King James Version (1611)
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, hee sate on her knees till noone, and then died.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he carried him to his mother, and he lay upon her knees till noon, and died.
English Revised Version
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
Berean Standard Bible
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he hadde take, and hadde brouyt hym to his modir, sche settide hym on hir knees `til to myddai, and he was deed.
Young's Literal Translation
and he beareth him, and bringeth him in unto his mother, and he sitteth on her knees till the noon, and dieth.
Update Bible Version
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died.
World English Bible
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
New King James Version
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
New Living Translation
So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died.
New Life Bible
When he was brought to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon. Then he died.
New Revised Standard
He carried him and brought him to his mother; the child sat on her lap until noon, and he died.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when he had carried him, and brought him in unto his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.
Revised Standard Version
And when he had lifted him, and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.
THE MESSAGE
The servant took him in his arms and carried him to his mother. He lay on her lap until noon and died.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died.

Contextual Overview

18 And the boy grew, and the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers. 19 And he said to his father, My head! My head! And he said to the young man, Carry him to his mother. 20 And he carried him, and brought him to his mother. And he sat on her knees until noon, and died. 21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out. 22 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. 23 And he said, Why are you going to him today; it is neither new moon nor sabbath? And she said, Peace. 24 And she saddled the ass and said to her young man, Lead on, and go. Do not hold back riding for me except I speak to you. 25 And she went, and came to the man of God, to Mount Carmel. And it happened, when the man of God saw her from afar, he said to his young man Gehazi, Behold, The Shunammite! 26 Now please run to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the boy? And she said, Well. 27 And she came to the mountain to the man of God, and lay hold on his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away. But the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is bitter in her, and Jehovah has hidden it from me, andhas not told me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his mother: Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 66:13, Luke 7:12

and then died: Genesis 22:2, Genesis 37:3, Genesis 37:5, 1 Kings 17:17, Ezekiel 24:16-18, Luke 2:35, John 11:3, John 11:5, John 11:14

Cross-References

Genesis 4:2
And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of flocks. And Cain became a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 4:4
And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.
Genesis 4:5
And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed greatly with anger, and his face fell.
Genesis 4:9
And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:10
And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:12
When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth.
Genesis 4:21
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all those playing the harp and the organ.
Genesis 25:27
And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.
John 8:44
You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaksfrom his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother,.... The lad led him home, and delivered him to his mother:

he sat on her knees till noon, and then died; out of her great affection, she took him on her knees, and laid his head in her bosom to sooth the pain, and in this posture he continued until the middle of the day, and then expired; by which it appears it was in the morning when he went into the field, and when the sun was pretty high, and beat strongly on him; which, it may be, produced a fever, and which issued in his death.


 
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