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2 Kings 4:17

The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared 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.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to 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.
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

8 One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal. 9 She said to her husband, "Look, I am sure that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God. 10 Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that he can stay there whenever he comes to us." 11 One day when he came there, he went up to the chamber and lay down there. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite woman." When he had called her, she stood before him. 13 He said to him, "Say to her, Since you have taken all this trouble for us, what may be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?" She answered, "I live among my own people." 14 He said, "What then may be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old." 15 He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood at the door. 16 He said, "At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son." She replied, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant." 17 The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared 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
and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:18
When Jared had lived one hundred sixty-two years he became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance"; he called the pillar by his own name. It is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
Psalms 49:11
Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.
Daniel 4:30
and the king said, "Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?"

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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