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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Young's Literal Translation

2 Kings 4:17

And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto 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.
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

8 And the day cometh that Elisha passeth over unto Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she layeth hold on him to eat bread, and it cometh to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turneth aside thither to eat bread, 9 and she saith unto her husband, `Lo, I pray thee, I have known that a holy man of God he is, passing over by us continually; 10 let us make, I pray thee, a little upper chamber of the wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high seat, and a candlestick; and it hath been, in his coming in unto us, he doth turn aside thither.' 11 And the day cometh, that he cometh in thither, and turneth aside unto the upper chamber, and lieth there, 12 and he saith unto Gehazi his young man, `Call for this Shunammite;' and he calleth for her, and she standeth before him. 13 And he saith to him, `Say, I pray thee, unto her, Lo, thou hast troubled thyself concerning us with all this trouble; what -- to do for thee? is it to speak for thee unto the king, or unto the head of the host?' and she saith, `In the midst of my people I am dwelling.' 14 And he saith, `And what -- to do for her?' and Gehazi saith, `Verily she hath no son, and her husband [is] aged.' 15 And he saith, `Call for her;' and he calleth for her, and she standeth at the opening, 16 and he saith, `At this season, according to the time of life, thou art embracing a son;' and she saith, `Nay, my lord, O man of God, do not lie unto thy maid-servant.' 17 And the woman conceiveth and beareth a son, at this season, according to the time of life, that Elisha spake of unto 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, he hath brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, even from their fat ones; and Jehovah looketh unto Abel and unto his present,
Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [art] thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;
Genesis 5:18
And Jared liveth an hundred and sixty and two years, and begetteth Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'
2 Samuel 18:18
And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that [is] in the king's valley, for he said, `I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;' and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called `The monument of Absalom' unto this day.
Psalms 49:11
Their heart [is]: Their houses [are] to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.
Daniel 4:30
the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?

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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