Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 4:10 in context
2 Kings 4:7–13
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Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
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She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
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Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11
One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
12
He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
13
He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’”
She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
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