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2 Kings 4:32
32When Elisha entered the house, there was the child, dead and laying on his bed.
2 Kings 4:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
- New International Version (NIV)When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.
- English Standard Version (ESV)When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed.
Context of 2 Kings 4:32
30But the mother of the child said, “As Adonai lives and as you live, I won’t leave you.” So he arose and followed her. 31Gehazi passed on ahead of them and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.” When Elisha entered the house, there was the child, dead and laying on his bed. 33So he entered and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to Adonai. 34Then he got up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself upon him. So the flesh of the child became warm.
Read all of 2 Kings 42 Kings 4:32 word by word
וַיָּבֹ֥א אֱלִישָׁ֖ע הַבָּ֑יְתָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה הַנַּ֙עַר֙ מֵ֔ת מֻשְׁכָּ֖ב עַל־מִטָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 2 Kings 4:32
- 1 Kings 17:17After these things, it came to pass that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house fell sick, and his sickness was getting much worse until he had no breath left in him.
- Luke 8:52And everyone was weeping and lamenting her; but He said, “Don’t weep, for she didn’t die but is sleeping.”
- John 11:17So when Yeshua arrived, He discovered that Lazarus had been in the tomb already for four days.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 4:32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32Behold, the child was dead - The prophet then saw that the body and spirit of the child were separated.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. 8-37Elisha's interactions with the woman from Shunem are shown in two similar parts (2 Kings 4:8–20, 21–37). Shunem was a border town in the land given to the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 19:18).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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