The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
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The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
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And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
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And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 4:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 21:1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- Psalms 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
- Luke 1:36 Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
- Hebrews 11:11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- 1 Samuel 1:19-20 They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
- Luke 1:24-25 After these days Elizabeth his wife conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a…
2Ki 4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
Ver. 17. And the woman conceived.] The like whereunto fell out in the last age: for Dr Sandys departing the land for fear of Queen Mary, and taking leave of his hostess, who was childless, and had been married eight years, he gave her a fine handkerchief and an old royal of gold in it, thanking her much, and said, Be of good comfort; ere that one whole year be past, God shall give you a child, a boy. And it came to pass that day twelve months lacking one day, God gave her a fair son. {a}
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{a} Act. and Mon., 1894.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the woman conceived, and bare a son at…
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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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Time of life - See note on Gen. xviii,…
Time of life - See note on Gen. xviii, 10.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Here by rendering as in the previous verse…
17. Here by rendering as in the previous verse the R.V. involves a change of order in the English but conforms thereby more nearly to the Hebrew order. ‘And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her’.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) And the woman conceived.—Comp. with this verse Gen_21:2.
(17) And the woman conceived.—Comp. with this verse Gen_21:2.
Said.—Promised.
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According to the time of life.—See Note on 2Ki_4:16.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the woman conceived, and bare a son at…
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life; rather, as the Revised Version gives the passage, the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season , when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her. The event was exactly as predicted; the child was born at the same season of the ensuing year.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 at the same time in the following year
at the same time in the following year
"during the same season the next year"
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When the child had grown
"When the child was older"
My head, my head.
The child said this because his head hurt. The meaning of this can be made clear. AT: "My head hurts! My head hurts!" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
the child sat on her knees until noon and then died
Here the woman's knees refer to her lap. She held her son in her lap until he died. AT: "she held him on her lap until noon and then he died" (See: Synecdoche)
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die
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