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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Kings 4 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/2_kings/4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > 2 Kings 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/3.htm" title="2 Kings 3">◄</a> 2 Kings 4 <a href="../2_kings/5.htm" title="2 Kings 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying: ‘Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD; and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Elisha said unto her: ‘What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?’ And she said: ‘Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then he said: ‘Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son: ‘Bring me yet a vessel.’ And he said unto her: ‘There is not a vessel more.’ And the oil stayed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And she said unto her husband: ‘Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick; and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the upper chamber and lay there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he said to Gehazi his servant: ‘Call this Shunammite.’ And when he had called her, she stood before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said unto him: ‘Say now unto her: Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?’ And she answered: ‘I dwell among mine own people.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he said: ‘What then is to be done for her?’ And Gehazi answered: ‘Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he said: ‘Call her.’ And when he had called her, she stood in the door. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he said: ‘At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son.’ And she said: ‘Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he said unto his father: ‘My head, my head.’ And he said to his servant: ‘Carry him to his mother.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And she called unto her husband, and said: ‘Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come back.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.’ And she said: ‘It shall be well.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: ‘Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel.<p>And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant: ‘Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her: Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child?’ And she answered: ‘It is well.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said: ‘Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told Me.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then she said: ‘Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Then he said to Gehazi: ‘Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the mother of the child said: ‘As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.’ And he arose, and followed her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: ‘The child is not awaked.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And he called Gehazi, and said: ‘Call this Shunammite.’ So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said: ‘Take up thy son.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed down to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And Elisha came again to Gilgal; and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant: ‘Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said: ‘O man of God, there is death in the pot.’ And they could not eat thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>But he said: ‘Then bring meal.’ And he cast it into the pot; and he said: ‘Pour out for the people, that they may eat.’ And there was no harm in the pot. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. And he said: ‘Give unto the people, that they may eat.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And his servant said: ‘How should I set this before a hundred men?’ But he said: ‘Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith the LORD: They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/2_kings/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>