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Literal Standard Version

2 Kings 4:15

And he says, "Call for her"; and he calls for her, and she stands at the opening,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Shunammite;   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;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shalisha;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - 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®
“Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
Hebrew Names Version
He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
King James Version
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
English Standard Version
He said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
New Century Version
Then Elisha said to Gehazi, "Call her." When he called her, she stood in the doorway.
New English Translation
Elisha told him, "Ask her to come here." So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.
Amplified Bible
He said, "Call her." So Gehazi called her, and she [came and] stood in the doorway.
New American Standard Bible
He then said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then said he, Cal her. And hee called her, and shee stoode in the doore.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he said, "Call her." So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.
Contemporary English Version
"Ask her to come here again," Elisha told his servant. He called for her, and she came and stood in the doorway of Elisha's room.
Complete Jewish Bible
Elisha said, "Call her." After he called her, she stood in the doorway.
Darby Translation
And he said, Call her; and he called her; and she stood in the doorway.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Elisha said, "Call her." So Gehazi called the woman. She came and stood at his door.
George Lamsa Translation
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
Good News Translation
"Tell her to come here," Elisha ordered. She came and stood in the doorway,
Lexham English Bible
And he said, "Call for her," so he called for her and she stood in the doorway.
Literal Translation
And he said, Call for her. And he called for her. And she stood at the door.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sayde: Call her. And wha he had called her, she stode at the dore.
American Standard Version
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
Bible in Basic English
Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he said: Call her. And when he had called her, she stoode in the doore.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he said: 'Call her.' And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
King James Version (1611)
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the doore.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he called her, and she stood by the door.
English Revised Version
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
Berean Standard Bible
"Call her," said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Elisee comaundide, that he schulde clepe hir. And whanne sche was clepid, and stood bifor the dore,
Young's Literal Translation
And he saith, `Call for her;' and he calleth for her, and she standeth at the opening,
Update Bible Version
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
World English Bible
He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
New King James Version
So he said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
New Living Translation
"Call her back again," Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway,
New Life Bible
Elisha said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood at the door.
New Revised Standard
He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood at the door.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he said - Call her. So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door,
Revised Standard Version
He said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
THE MESSAGE
"Call her in," said Elisha. He called her and she stood at the open door.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

Contextual Overview

8And the day comes that Elisha passes over to Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she lays hold on him to eat bread, and it comes to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turns aside there to eat bread, 9and she says to her husband, "Now behold, I have known that he is a holy man of God, passing over by us continually; 10please let us make a little upper chamber of the wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high seat, and a lampstand; and it has been, in his coming to us, he turns aside there." 11And the day comes that he comes in there, and turns aside to the upper chamber, and lies there, 12and he says to his young man Gehazi, "Call for this Shunammite"; and he calls for her, and she stands before him. 13And he says to him, "Now say to her, Behold, you have troubled yourself concerning us with all this trouble; what can [I] do for you? Is it to speak for you to the king, or to the head of the host?" And she says, "I am dwelling in the midst of my people." 14And he says, "And what can [I] do for her?" And Gehazi says, "Truly she has no son, and her husband [is] aged." 15And he says, "Call for her"; and he calls for her, and she stands at the opening,16and he says, "At this season, according to the time of life, you are embracing a son"; and she says, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant." 17And the woman conceives and bears a son, at this season, according to the time of life that Elisha spoke of to her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
For sevenfold is required for Cain, || And for Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
Leviticus 26:18
And if up to these you [still] do not listen to Me—then I have added to discipline you sevenfold for your sins;
Leviticus 26:21
And if you walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I have added to you a plague sevenfold, according to your sins,
Leviticus 26:24
then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have struck you, even I, sevenfold for your sins;
Leviticus 26:28
then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have disciplined you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet a word of YHWH has been concerning Baasha, and concerning his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of YHWH to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to be like the house of Jeroboam, and concerning that for which he struck him.
Psalms 59:11
Do not slay them, lest my people forget, || Shake them by Your strength, || And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms 79:12
And return to our neighbors, || Sevenfold to their bosom, their reproach, || With which they reproached You, O Lord.
Proverbs 6:31
And being found he repays sevenfold, || He gives all the substance of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
And He calls to the man who is clothed with linen, who has the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and YHWH says to him, "Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and you have made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, call her,.... Perhaps finding an impulse on his own mind, from the Spirit of God, that this was the thing to be done for her:

and when he had called her, she stood in the door; of his chamber:

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