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Young's Literal Translation

2 Kings 4:32

And Elisha cometh in to the house, and lo, the youth is dead, laid 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.
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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on 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 lad groweth, and the day cometh that he goeth out unto his father, unto the reapers, 19 and he saith unto his father, `My head, my head;' and he saith unto the young man, `Bear him unto his mother;' 20 and he beareth him, and bringeth him in unto his mother, and he sitteth on her knees till the noon, and dieth. 21 And she goeth up, and layeth him on the bed of the man of God, and shutteth [the door] upon him, and goeth out, 22 and calleth unto her husband, and saith, `Send, I pray thee, to me, one of the young men, and one of the asses, and I run unto the man of God, and return.' 23 And he saith, `Wherefore art thou going unto him to-day? -- neither new moon nor sabbath!' and she saith, `Peace [to thee]!' 24 And she saddleth the ass, and saith unto her young man, `Lead, and go, do not restrain riding for me, except I have said [so] to thee.' 25 And she goeth, and cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill of Carmel, and it cometh to pass, at the man of God's seeing her from over-against, that he saith unto Gehazi his young man, `Lo, this Shunammite; 26 now, run, I pray thee, to meet her, and say to her, Is there peace to thee? is there peace to thy husband? is there peace to the lad?' and she saith, `Peace.' 27 And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her away, and the man of God saith, `Let her alone, for her soul [is] bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden [it] from me, and hath not declared [it] to 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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