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2 Kings 4:21

2 Kings 4:21 is verse 21 of 2 Kings chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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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King James Version

And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

World English Bible

She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.

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2 Kings 4:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

22 And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”

23 “Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Kings 4:10

Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

1 Kings 17:19

But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

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