Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son
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And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
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And he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
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When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
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And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.
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Then she called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back."
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So he said, "Why are you going to him today? It is neither the g New Moon nor the Sabbath." And she said, "It is well."
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Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."
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And so she departed, and went to the man of God h at Mount Carmel.
So it was, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, the Shunammite woman!
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"Please run now to meet her, and say to her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?' " And she answered, "It is well."
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Now when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone; for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me."
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So she said, "Did I ask a son of my lord? i Did I not say, 'Do not deceive me'?"
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Then he said to Gehazi, j "Get yourself ready, and take my staff in your hand, and be on your way. If you meet anyone, k do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answer him; but l lay my staff on the face of the child."
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And the mother of the child said, m "As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not n leave you." So he arose and followed her.
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Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has o not awakened."
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When Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed.
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He p went in therefore, shut the door behind the two of them, q and prayed to the LORD.
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And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands; and r he stretched himself out on the child, and the flesh of the child became warm.
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He returned and walked back and forth in the house, and again went up s and stretched himself out on him; then t the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
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And he called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, "Pick up your son."
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So she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground; then she u picked up her son and went out.
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Numbers 10:10
"Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God."
Numbers 28:11
At the beginnings of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish.
1 Chronicles 23:31
And at every presentation of a burnt offering to the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the set feasts, by number according to the ordinance governing them, regularly before the LORD.
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2 Kings 2:25
Then he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
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2 Kings 4:16
Then he said, "About this time next year you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maidservant!
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1 Kings 18:46
Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
2 Kings 9:1
And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, "Get yourself ready, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
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Luke 10:4
Carry neither money bag, knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road.
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Exodus 7:19
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, that they may become blood. And there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in buckets of wood and pitchers of stone.'
Exodus 14:16
But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
2 Kings 2:8
Now Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the water; and it was divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
2 Kings 2:14
Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and struck the water, and said, "Where is the LORD God of Elijah?" And when he also had struck the water, it was divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed over.
Acts 19:12
So that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.
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2 Kings 2:2
Then Elijah said to Elisha, "Stay here, please, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel." But Elisha said, " As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!" So they went down to Bethel.
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2 Kings 2:4
Then Elijah said to him, "Elisha, stay here, please, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho." But he said, " As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!" So they came to Jericho.
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John 11:11
These things He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.
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2 Kings 4:4
"And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones."
Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Luke 8:51
When He came into the house, He permitted no one to go in except Peter, James, and John, and the father and mother of the girl.
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1 Kings 17:20
Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?
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1 Kings 17:21 - 23
And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him.
Acts 20:10
But Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, "Do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him.
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1 Kings 17:21
And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him.
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2 Kings 8:1
Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.
2 Kings 8:5
Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had restored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.
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1 Kings 17:23
And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives!
Hebrews 11:35
Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
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