God’s Word Translation
2 Kings 4:21
21She took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God, left ⌞the room⌟, and shut the door behind her.
2 Kings 4:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
- New International Version (NIV)She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.
Context of 2 Kings 4:21
19⌞Suddenly,⌟ he said to his father, “My head! My head!” The father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20The servant picked him up and brought him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, when he died. She took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God, left ⌞the room⌟, and shut the door behind her. 22She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. I will go quickly to the man of God and come back again.” 23Her husband asked, “Why are you going to him today? It isn’t a New Moon Festival or a day of rest—a holy day.” But she said goodbye to him.
Read all of 2 Kings 42 Kings 4:21 word by word
וַתַּ֙עַל֙ וַתַּשְׁכִּבֵ֔הוּ עַל־מִטַּ֖ת אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַתִּסְגֹּ֥ר בַּעֲד֖וֹ וַתֵּצֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 2 Kings 4:21
- 2 Kings 4:10Let’s make a small room on the roof and put a bed, table, chair, and lamp stand there for him. He can stay there whenever he comes to visit us.”
- 1 Kings 17:19He said to her, “Give me your son.” Elijah took him from her arms, carried him to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 4:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Laid him on the bed of the man of God - She had no doubt heard that Elijah had raised the widow's son of Zarephath to life; and she believed that he who had obtained this gift from God for her, could obtain his restoration to life.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-37Verses 18-37 Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But how admirably does the prudent, pious mother, guard her lips under this sudden affliction! Not one peevish word escapes from her. Such confidence had she of God's goodness, that she was ready to believe that he would restore what he had now taken away. O woman, great is thy faith! He that wrought…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21laid him on the bed of the man of God: By doing this, the woman kept her son's death a secret and showed her belief in Elisha's power to perform a miracle.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Kings 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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