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Schlachter Bibel

2 Könige 4:30

Aber die Mutter des Knaben sprach: So wahr der Herr lebt, und so wahr deine Seele lebt, ich lasse nicht von dir! Da machte er sich auf und folgte ihr.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Elisha;   Miracles;   Shunammite;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Persistence, Woman's;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Shunem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Resurrection;   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;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ass;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Die Mutter des Knaben aber sprach: So wahr der HERR lebt und deine Seele, ich lasse nicht von dir! Da machte er sich auf und ging ihr nach.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As the Lord: 2 Kings 2:2, 2 Kings 2:4

I will not: Exodus 33:12-16, Ruth 1:16-18

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:26 - as thy soul 2 Samuel 15:21 - As the Lord 1 Kings 1:29 - As the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the mother of the child said,.... Having no faith in what the servant was to do, or could do:

as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee; signifying she would not go with his servant, but insisted upon it that he himself went with her, or she would not depart:

and he arose, and followed her; influenced by her importunity, and a sense of favours he had received from her, and more especially by the Spirit of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. I will not leave thee. — The prophet it seems had no design to accompany her; he intended to wait for Gehazi's return; but as the woman was well assured the child was dead, she was determined not to return till she brought the prophet with her.


 
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