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"Never mind," she answered. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/4-23.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.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="../vmenus/2_kings/4-23.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="/bmcc/2_kings/4-23.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="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 23</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><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></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/4-22.htm" title="2 Kings 4:22">◄</a> 2 Kings 4:23 <a href="../2_kings/4-24.htm" title="2 Kings 4:24">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Why do you have to go today?" her husband asked. "It's neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival." "Never mind," she answered. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />He said, “Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath.” She said, “It will be all right.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Why do you need to see him today?" her husband asked. "It's not the Sabbath or time for the New Moon Festival." "That's all right," she answered. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He asked, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the sabbath.” But she said, “It is all right.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.</p><p class="hdg">new moon</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/10-10.htm">Numbers 10:10</a> If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/28-11.htm">Numbers 28:11</a> And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/23-31.htm">1 Chronicles 23:31</a> As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-13.htm">Isaiah 1:13-15</a> Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. . . . </p><p class="hdg">well [heb] peace</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/4-26.htm">2 Kings 4:26</a> Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? And she answered: Well.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/4.htm">Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">22</span>She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. <span class="reftext">23</span><span class="highl">And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.</span><span class="reftext">24</span>And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/10-10.htm">Numbers 10:10</a></span><br />If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/28-11.htm">Numbers 28:11</a></span><br />And on the first day of the month you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/4-22.htm">2 Kings 4:22</a></span><br />She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/4-24.htm">2 Kings 4:24</a></span><br />And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going: And do that which I bid thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/23-31.htm">1 Chronicles 23:31</a></span><br />As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/8-5.htm">Amos 8:5</a></span><br />Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_samuel/20-34.htm">Moon</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-20.htm">New</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-24.htm">New-Moon</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-5.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-14.htm">Right</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-15.htm">Sabbath</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-5.htm">Today</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-5.htm">To-Day</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-34.htm">Wherefore</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-7.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/23-5.htm">Moon</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-42.htm">New</a> <a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">New-Moon</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-26.htm">Peace</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-26.htm">Right</a> <a href="/2_kings/11-5.htm">Sabbath</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-28.htm">Today</a> <a href="/2_kings/6-28.htm">To-Day</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-31.htm">Wherefore</a> <a href="/2_kings/8-12.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/2_kings/4-23.htm">2 Kings 4:23 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all And asked be go he him is It It's Moon neither New nor not or right Sabbath said she the to today well Why will you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-23.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 4:23 He said Why will you go (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/4-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 4:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 4:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/4-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 4:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 4:24" /></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="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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