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2 Kings 4:19
2 Kings 4:19 is verse 19 of 2 Kings chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
King James Version
And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
World English Bible
He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
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2 Kings 4:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
17 But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
19 “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.