OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

2 Kings 4:23

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He said, “Why would you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.”

She said, “It’s all right.”

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2 Kings 4:23 in context

2 Kings 4:20–26

20

When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

21

She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.

22

She called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come again.”

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He said, “Why would you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.”

She said, “It’s all right.”

24

Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”

25

So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.

26

Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’”

She answered, “It is well.”

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