So they searched for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel and found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
2 Kings 4:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her. When she came to him, he said, “Take your son.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then [Elisha] called Gehazi and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came, he said, Take up your son. American Standard Version (1901) And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. Common English Bible Elisha called for Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” Gehazi called her, and she came to Elisha. He told her, “Pick up your son.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he called Gehazi, and said to him, "Call this Shunammite woman." And having been called, she entered to him. And he said, "Take up your son." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And she being called went in to him. And he said: Take up thy son. |
So they searched for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel and found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; then Elijah said, “See, your son is alive.”
He got down, walked once to and fro in the room, then got up again and bent over him; the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground; then she took her son and left.
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household and settle wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”
The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.