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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Legacy Standard Bible

2 Kings 4:17

Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Shunammite;   Vicegerency;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   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;   Life;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.
Hebrew Names Version
The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
King James Version
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
English Standard Version
But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.
New Century Version
But the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son at that time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.
New English Translation
The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
Amplified Bible
But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, just as Elisha had said to her.
New American Standard Bible
Now the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had told her.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the woman conceiued, & bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.
Contemporary English Version
But a few months later, the woman got pregnant. She gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had promised.
Complete Jewish Bible
But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son the following year when the season came around, just as Elisha had said to her.
Darby Translation
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that appointed time in the next year as Elisha had said to her.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the woman did become pregnant and gave birth to a son that next spring, just as Elisha had said.
George Lamsa Translation
And the woman conceived and bore a son; at the season that Elisha had said to her, she was with child.
Good News Translation
But, as Elisha had said, at about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.
Lexham English Bible
But the woman conceived, and she bore a son in the spring, which Elisha had promised to her.
Literal Translation
And the woman conceived and bore a son, at this season, according to the time of life that Elisha spoke of to her.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the woman conceaued, and bare a sonne aboute the same tyme, wha the frute coulde lyue, acordynge as Eliseus had sayde vnto her.
American Standard Version
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
Bible in Basic English
Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the wyfe conceaued, and bare a sonne that same season that Elisa had sayde vnto her, acording to the tyme of lyfe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
King James Version (1611)
And the woman conceiued, and bare a sonne at that season, that Elisha had said vnto her, according to the time of life.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at the very time, as the season was, being alive, as Elisaie said to her.
English Revised Version
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
Berean Standard Bible
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the womman conseyuede, and childide a sone in the tyme, and in the same our, in which Elisee hadde seid.
Young's Literal Translation
And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto her.
Update Bible Version
And the woman became pregnant, and gave birth to a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.
World English Bible
The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
New King James Version
But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her.
New Living Translation
But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.
New Life Bible
Later she was going to have a child and she gave birth to a son at that time the next year, as Elisha had told her.
New Revised Standard
The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared to her.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the woman conceived, and bare a son, at this season, about the time of spring, when Elisha, had spoken unto her.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour that Eliseus had said.
Revised Standard Version
But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Eli'sha had said to her.
THE MESSAGE
The woman conceived. A year later, just as Elisha had said, she had a son.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

Contextual Overview

8Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she prevailed upon him to eat food. Now it happened, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat food. 9And she said to her husband, "Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually. 10Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there." 11Now it happened that one day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber, and there he lay down. 12Then he said to Gehazi his young man, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her, and she stood before him. 13And he said to him, "Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people." 14So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son, and her husband is old." 15And he said, "Call her." So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. 16Then he said, "At this season next year you will embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your servant-woman." 17Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 21:1, 1 Samuel 1:19, 1 Samuel 1:20, Psalms 113:9, Luke 1:24, Luke 1:25, Luke 1:36, Hebrews 11:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:19 - Sarah Genesis 18:10 - according Genesis 21:2 - conceived 2 Kings 8:4 - all the great Matthew 1:21 - she Matthew 10:41 - that receiveth a prophet Luke 1:13 - thy prayer

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Abel, on his part, also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And Yahweh had regard for Abel and for his offering;
Genesis 4:11
And now, cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lived 162 years and became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
Then Enoch walked with God 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he had said, "I have no son to preserve my name." So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
Psalms 49:11
Their inner thought is that their houses are foreverAnd their dwelling places from generation to generation;They have called their lands after their own names.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the woman conceived, and bare a son at the season that Elisha said unto her,.... Quickly after this she conceived, and became pregnant, and by that time the year came round, she was brought to bed of a son:

according to the time of life: when she had gone her full time to have a son born alive, and live.


 
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