2 Kings 4:8

Conservative English Version

Once, while Elisha was in the town of Shunem, he met a rich woman who invited him to her home for dinner. After that, whenever he was in Shunem, he would have a meal there with her and her husband.

Cross References

Genesis 19:3

But Lot kept insisting, until they finally agreed and went home with him. He baked some bread, cooked a meal, and they ate.

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was eighty years old. He was very rich and had sent food to David in Mahanaim.

1 Kings 1:3

They looked everywhere in Israel until they found a very beautiful young woman named Abishag, who lived in the town of Shunem. They brought her to David, and she took care of him. But David did not have sex with her.

2 Kings 4:18

One day while the boy was still young, he was out in the fields with his father, where the workers were harvesting the crops.

Job 1:3

He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pair of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. He was the richest person in the East.

Job 32:9

Age is no guarantee of wisdom and understanding.

Proverbs 7:21

And so, she tricked him with all of her sweet talk and her flattery.

Matthew 25:17

The servant who had two thousand coins did the same with his money and earned two thousand more.

Luke 1:15

Your son will be a great servant of the Lord. He must never drink wine or beer, and the power of the Holy Spirit will be with him from the time he is born.

Luke 14:23

His master then told him, "Go out along the back roads and fence rows and make people come in, so that my house will be full.

Luke 24:29

They begged him, "Stay with us! It's already late, and the sun is going down." So Jesus went into the house to stay with them.

Acts 16:15

Then after she and her family were baptized, she kept on begging us, "If you think I really do have faith in the Lord, come stay in my home." Finally, we accepted her invitation.

Joshua 19:18

(SEE 19:17)

Judges 19:20

The old man said, "You are welcome to spend the night in my home and to be my guest, but don't stay out here!"

1 Samuel 28:4

The Philistines went to Shunem and set up camp. Saul called the army of Israel together, and they set up their camp in Gilboa.