2 Kings 4:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a rich and influential woman lived, who insisted on his eating a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Common English Bible

⁸ One day Elisha went to Shunem. A rich woman lived there. She urged him to eat something, so whenever he passed by, he would stop in to eat some food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Now it happened that, on a certain day, Elisha passed by Shunem. And there was a great woman there, who took him to eat bread. And since he frequently passed by there, he turned aside to her house, so that he might eat bread.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam. Now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread; and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.

2 Kings 4:8 Cross References

Genesis 19:3

And he urged them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

1 Kings 1:3

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

2 Kings 4:18

And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

Job 1:3

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east

Job 32:9

It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand judgement.

Proverbs 7:21

With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, With the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.

Matthew 25:17

In like manner he also that received the two gained other two.

Luke 1:15

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Luke 14:23

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to abide with them.

Acts 16:15

And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

Joshua 19:18

And their border was unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem;

Judges 19:20

And the old man said, Peace be unto thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

1 Samuel 28:4

And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.