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2 Kings 4:32

Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Dead (People);   Elisha;   Miracles;   Shunammite;   Women;   Scofield Reference Index - Resurrection;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Elisha;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Miracle;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Resurrection;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Resurrection;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Shunem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Furniture;   Intercession;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gehazi;   Marriage;   Medicine;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gehazi ;   Miracles;   Shunammite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ass;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Elisha got to the house, he discovered the boy lying dead on his bed.
Hebrew Names Version
When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
King James Version
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
English Standard Version
When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
New Century Version
When Elisha came into the house, the boy was lying dead on his bed.
New English Translation
When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.
Amplified Bible
When Elisha came into the house, the child was dead and lying on his bed.
New American Standard Bible
When Elisha entered the house, behold the boy was dead, laid on his bed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came Elisha into the house, and beholde, the childe was dead, and layed vpon his bedde.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Elisha came into the house, and behold, the boy was dead and laid on his bed.
Contemporary English Version
Elisha arrived at the woman's house and went straight to his room, where he saw the boy's body on his bed.
Complete Jewish Bible
When Elisha reached the house, there the child was, dead and laid on the bed.
Darby Translation
And when Elisha came into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
Easy-to-Read Version
Elisha went into the house, and there was the child, lying dead on his bed.
George Lamsa Translation
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead and lying upon his bed.
Good News Translation
When Elisha arrived, he went alone into the room and saw the boy lying dead on the bed.
Lexham English Bible
When Elisha came to the house, here was the boy dead, lying on his bed.
Literal Translation
And Elisha came into the house. And, behold, the boy was dead, laid out on his bed.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan Eliseus came into the house, beholde, ye childe laye deed vpo his bed.
American Standard Version
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
Bible in Basic English
And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when Elisa was come into the house, behold the childe was dead, and layde vpon his bed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
King James Version (1611)
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid vpon his bed.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Elisaie went into the house, and, behold, the dead child was laid upon his bed.
English Revised Version
And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
Berean Standard Bible
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Elisee entride in to the hows, and, lo! the deed child lai in his bed.
Young's Literal Translation
And Elisha cometh in to the house, and lo, the youth is dead, laid on his bed,
Update Bible Version
And when Elisha came into the house, look, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.
World English Bible
When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
New King James Version
When Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed.
New Living Translation
When Elisha arrived, the child was indeed dead, lying there on the prophet's bed.
New Life Bible
When Elisha came into the house, he saw the boy lying dead on his bed.
New Revised Standard
When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when Elisha had come into the house, lo! the boy, was dead, laid upon his bed.
Revised Standard Version
When Eli'sha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
THE MESSAGE
Elisha entered the house and found the boy stretched out on the bed dead. He went into the room and locked the door—just the two of them in the room—and prayed to God . He then got into bed with the boy and covered him with his body, mouth on mouth, eyes on eyes, hands on hands. As he was stretched out over him like that, the boy's body became warm. Elisha got up and paced back and forth in the room. Then he went back and stretched himself upon the boy again. The boy started sneezing—seven times he sneezed!—and opened his eyes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When Elisha came into the house, behold the lad was dead and laid on his bed.

Contextual Overview

18 And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers, 19 He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother. 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died. 21 And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out, 22 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. 23 And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go. 24 And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee. 25 So she went forward, and came to the man of God, to mount Carmel: and when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, his servant: Behold that Sunamitess. 26 Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well. 27 And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the child: 1 Kings 17:17, Luke 8:52, Luke 8:53, John 11:17

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:19 - into a loft 2 Kings 4:4 - thou shalt shut Matthew 9:25 - the people Matthew 10:41 - that receiveth a prophet Luke 7:15 - General John 5:21 - as Acts 9:40 - and prayed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Elisha was come into the house,.... Of the Shunamite, and into the chamber built for him:

behold, the child was dead, and laid upon the bed; upon his bed, and where he found it really dead.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. Behold, the child was dead — The prophet then saw that the body and spirit of the child were separated.


 
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