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2 Kings 4:10-12
New English Translation
2 Kings 4:10-12
New English Translation
10 Let’s make a small, private upper room[a] and furnish it with[b] a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”
11 One day Elisha[c] came for a visit; he went[d] into the upper room and rested.[e] 12 He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.”[f] So he did so and she came to him.[g]
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- 2 Kings 4:10 tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall.” According to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”
- 2 Kings 4:10 tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”
- 2 Kings 4:11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Kings 4:11 tn Heb “turned aside.”
- 2 Kings 4:11 tn Or “slept there.”
- 2 Kings 4:12 tn Heb “Call for this Shunammite woman.”
- 2 Kings 4:12 tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood before him.”
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