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2 Kings 8:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The king had been speaking to Gehazi,  the attendant of the man of God, saying, ‘Tell me all the great things Elisha has done.’

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Several days later, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and listened to him on the subject of faith in Christ Jesus.


‘I already told you,’ he said, ‘and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples too, do you? ’


Herod was very glad to see Jesus; for a long time he had wanted to see him because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle  performed by him.


‘I beheaded John,’ Herod said, ‘but who is this I hear such things about? ’ And he wanted to see him.


He sent them to Bethlehem and said, ‘Go and search carefully for the child. When you find him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship him.’  ,


The diseased men came and called to the city’s gatekeepers and told them, ‘We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there #– #no human sounds. There was nothing but tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.’


Now four men with a skin disease  were at the entrance to the city gate. They said to each other, ‘Why just sit here until we die?


Elisha replied, ‘Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says: “About this time tomorrow at Samaria’s gate, seven litres  of fine flour will sell for ten grams of silver  and fourteen litres  of barley will sell for ten grams of silver.” ’


Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders  were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, ‘Do you see how this murderer  has sent someone to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him? ’


Then the man of God  asked, ‘Where did it fall? ’ When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a piece of wood, threw it there, and made the iron float.


So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the command of the man of God. Then his skin was restored and became like the skin of a small boy, and he was clean.


He ordered his attendant Gehazi,  ‘Call this Shunammite woman.’ So he called her and she stood before him.


He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord.  Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the children.


He took the mantle Elijah had dropped, and he struck the water. ‘Where is the Lord God of Elijah? ’ he asked. He struck the water himself, and it parted to the right and the left, and Elisha crossed over.


When the woman returned from the land of the Philistines at the end of seven years,  she went to appeal to the king for her house and field.


So she came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi,  ‘Look, there’s the Shunammite woman.





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