Devine Scripture

2 Kings 4:9

2 Kings chapter 4 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.

Context

v.8And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

v.9This passage

v.10Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 31:10

    A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

  • 1 Peter 3:1

    In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

  • Titus 1:8

    but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

  • 2 Kings 4:7

    Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:10

    Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

  • 1 Kings 17:18

    And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? thou art come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!