2 Kings 4:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And it fell on a day, that Elisa came to Sunem, where was a great woman, that toke him in for to eate bread: And so it came to passe, that from that tyme foorth (as oft as he came that way) he turned in thyther to eate bread.

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  • Josh 19:18 : 18 And their coast was Iesraelah, Casuloth, aud Sunem,
  • 2 Sam 19:32 : 32 Barzellai was a very aged man, euen foure score yeres olde, and prouided the king of sustenaunce while he laye at Mahanaim: for he was a man of very great substaunce.
  • 1 Kgs 1:3 : 3 And so they sought for a faire damosell throughout al the coastes of Israel, and founde one Abisag a Sunamite, and brought her to the king.
  • 2 Kgs 4:11-12 : 11 And it fortuned on a day that he came thither, and turned into the chamber, & lay therein, 12 And saide to Gehezi his seruaunt: Call this Sunamite. And when he called her, she presented her selfe before him.
  • 2 Kgs 4:18 : 18 And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, and to the reapers,
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countrey.
  • Job 32:9 : 9 Great men are not alway wyse, neither doth euery aged man vnderstande the thing that is lawfull:
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he shalbe great in the syght of the Lorde, and shall neither drynke wine nor strong drynke: and he shalbe fylled with the holy ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.
  • Luke 14:23 : 23 And the Lorde sayde to the seruaunt: Go out into the hye wayes & hedges, and compell them to come in, that my house may be fylled.
  • Luke 24:29 : 29 And they constrayned hym, saying: abyde with vs, for it draweth towarde nyght, and the day is farre passed. And he went in to tary with them.
  • Judg 19:20 : 20 The olde man sayd: Peace be with thee, all that thou lackest shalt thou fynde with me: Only abyde not in the streate all nyght.
  • 1 Sam 28:4 : 4 And the Philistines gathered together, and came, and pytched in Sunem: And Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pytched in Gilboa.
  • Gen 19:3 : 3 And he preassed vpon them exceedinglye: and they returnyng in vnto hym, entred into his house, & he made them a feast, and did bake vnleuened bread, and they did eate.
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 And when she was baptized, and her householde, she besought vs, saying: Yf ye haue iudged me to be faythfull to the Lorde, come into my house, and abyde there. And she constrayned vs.

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  • 2 Kgs 4:9-18
    10 verses
    82%

    9And she saide vnto her husband: Beholde, I perceaue that this is an holy man of God which passeth by vs continually.

    10Let vs make him a litle chamber I pray thee, with walles, & let vs set him there a bed, and a table, and a stoole, and a candelsticke: that he may turne in thyther when he commeth to vs.

    11And it fortuned on a day that he came thither, and turned into the chamber, & lay therein,

    12And saide to Gehezi his seruaunt: Call this Sunamite. And when he called her, she presented her selfe before him.

    13And againe he said vnto him: Tel her, beholde thou hast ben carefull for vs with all this care, What shal we now do for thee? Wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captayne of the hoast? She aunswered: I dwell among myne owne people.

    14And he said againe: What is to be done for her? Gehezi aunswered: Ueryly she hath no childe, and her husband is olde.

    15And he said: Call her. And when he had called her, she stoode in the doore.

    16And he saide: At this tyme appoynted, according to the tyme of lyfe, thou shalt imbrace a sonne. And she said: Oh nay my lorde thou man of God, do not lye vnto thyne handmayde.

    17And the wyfe conceaued, and bare a sonne that same season that Elisa had sayde vnto her, acording to the tyme of lyfe.

    18And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, and to the reapers,

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-27
    7 verses
    76%

    21And she went vp, and laide him on the bed of the man of God, & shut the doore vpon him, and went out,

    22And called vnto her husband, & sayde: Send with me I pray thee one of the young men, and one of the asses: for I will runne to the man of God, and come againe.

    23And he saide: Wherefore wylt thou go to him? seing that to day is neither newe moone nor sabbath day. And she aunswered: All shalbe well.

    24Then she sadled an asse, and saide to her seruaunt: Dryue and go forwarde, staye not for me to get vp, except I hyd thee.

    25And so she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel: And it fortuned, that when the man of God sawe her farre of, he saide to Gehezi his seruaunt: Beholde, yonder is the Sunamite:

    26Runne therefore to meete her, & saye vnto her: Is all well with thee, & with thy husband, and with the lad? And she aunswered: All is well.

    27And when she came to the man of God vp to the hill, she caught him by the feete: But Gehezi went to her, to thrust her away. And the man of God sayde: Let her alone, for her soule is vexed within her, and the Lorde hath hid it from me, and hath not tolde it me.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    75%

    7Then she came and tolde the man of God: And he sayde, Go, and sell the oyle, and pay them that thou art in debt vnto: but lyue thou and thy children of the rest.

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
    73%

    15He sayde vnto him: Come home with me, and eate bread.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-38
    3 verses
    72%

    36And he called Gehezi, and saide: Call for this Sunamite. So he called her: which when she was come in vnto him, he saide vnto her: Take thy sonne.

    37Therfore she went in, and fell at his feete, and bowed her selfe to the ground, and toke vp her sonne, and went out.

    38Elisa came againe to Gilgal, and there was a dearth in the lande, and the children of the prophetes dwelt with him: And he saide vnto his seruaunt, Set a great pot on the fyre and make potage for the children of the prophetes.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-6
    6 verses
    72%

    1Then spake Elisa vnto the woman (whose sonne he had restored to lyfe againe) saying: Up, and go thou and thyne house, and soiourne where so euer thou canst: For the Lord hath called for a dearth, and the same shall come vpon the lande seuen yeres.

    2And the woman arose, and dyd after the saying of the man of God, and went both she and her houshold, & soiourned in the land of the Philistines seue yeres.

    3And at the seuen yeres ende, it fortuned that the woman came againe out of the land of the Philistines, and went out to call vpon the king for her house and for her lande.

    4And the king talked with Gehezi the seruaunt of the man of God, saying: Tel me I pray thee al the great deedes that Elisa hath done.

    5He told the king howe he had restored a dead body to lyfe againe: but in the meane time the woman whose sonne he had raysed vp againe, cryed to the king for her house, and for her land: And Gehezi sayde, My lorde O king, this is the woman, and this is her sonne whom Elisa raysed vp againe.

    6And when the king asked the woman, she tolde him: And so the king deliuered her a chamberlayne, saying, Restore thou vnto her all that are hers and all the fruites of the fielde, sence the day that she left the land, vnto this tyme.

  • 1 Kgs 17:15
    72%

    15And she went, and did as Elias sayde: And she, and he, and her house, did eate a good space.

  • 1 Kgs 17:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9Up, and get thee to Zarphath, which is in Sidon, and dwell there: Beholde, I haue commaunded a wydow there to sustaine thee.

    10So he arose, and went to Zarphath: and when he came to the gate of the citie, beholde the widow was there gathering of stickes: And he called to her, and said: set me I pray thee a litle water in a vessel, that I may drincke.

    11And as she was going to fet it, he cryed after her, and saide: bryng me I pray thee a morsell of bread also in thyne hand.

  • 1 Sam 28:22-24
    3 verses
    70%

    22Nowe therefore I pray thee hearken thou also vnto the voyce of thyne handmayde, and let me set a morsell of bread before thee, that thou mayest eate, and get thee strength, & then go on thy iourney.

    23He refused, and sayde: I will not eate. But his seruauntes and the woman together compelled him, and he hearkened vnto their voyce: And so he arose from the earth, and sat on a bed.

    24The woman had a fat calfe in the house, and she hasted and killed it, and tooke floure and kneded it, and did bake vnleauened bread thereof:

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1And there cryed a certayne woman of the wyues of the sonnes of the prophetes, vnto Elisa, saying: Thy seruaunt my husband is dead, & thou knowest that thy seruaunt did feare the Lorde: And the creditor is come to fet my two sonnes to be his bondmen.

    2Elisa saide vnto her: Tell me what I shall do for thee? What hast thou in thyne house? She saide: Thyne handemayde hath nothing at all in the house, saue a pitcher with oyle.

  • 2 Kgs 4:42
    70%

    42There came a man from Baal Salisa, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruites, euen twentie loaues of barlye, & full eares of corne in the huske: And he said, Geue vnto the people, that they may eate.

  • 1 Kgs 13:19
    69%

    19And so he went againe with him, and did eate bread in his house, and drancke water.

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
    69%

    26And as the king of Israel was goyng vpon the wal, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying: Help me my lord O king.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    68%

    17And after these thinges, it happened that the sonne of the wyfe of the house fel sicke, & his sicknesse was so sore that there was no breath left in him.

  • 1 Kgs 17:13
    68%

    13And Elias saide vnto her, Feare not, go, and do as thou hast saide: but make me thereof a litle cake first of all, & bring it vnto me, and afterward make for thee and thy sonne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:44
    68%

    44And so he set it before them, and they did eate, and left ouer, according to the word of the Lorde.

  • Luke 4:25
    68%

    25But I tell you of a trueth, many wydowes were in Israel, in the dayes of Elias, when heauen was shutte three yeres & sixe monethes, when great famishment was throughout all ye lande:

  • Judg 19:5
    68%

    5The fourth day whan they arose early in the mornyng, the man stoode vp, to depart. And the damosels father sayde vnto his sonne in lawe: Comfort thyne heart with a morsell of bread, and then go your way.

  • Gen 19:3
    67%

    3And he preassed vpon them exceedinglye: and they returnyng in vnto hym, entred into his house, & he made them a feast, and did bake vnleuened bread, and they did eate.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    67%

    28And the king sayde vnto her: What wilt thou? She aunswered: Yonder woman sayd vnto me, Bring thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate myne to morowe.