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2 Kings 4:8

Good News Translation (US Version)

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

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Its area included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,

but they held him back, saying, “Stay with us; the day is almost over and it is getting dark.” So he went in to stay with them.

It is not growing old that makes us wise or helps us to know what is right.

and owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand head of cattle, and five hundred donkeys. He also had a large number of servants and was the richest man in the East.

He kept on urging them, and finally they went with him to his house. Lot ordered his servants to bake some bread and prepare a fine meal for the guests. When it was ready, they ate it.

A search was made all over Israel for a beautiful young woman, and in Shunem they found such a woman named Abishag, and brought her to the king.

Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old. He was very rich and had supplied the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim.

The old man said, “You are welcome in my home! I'll take care of you; you don't have to spend the night in the square.”

After she and the people of her house had been baptized, she invited us, “Come and stay in my house if you have decided that I am a true believer in the Lord.” And she persuaded us to go.

John will be great in the Lord's sight. He must not drink any wine or strong drink. From his very birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit,

So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk.

Some years later, at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers.

The Philistine troops assembled and camped near the town of Shunem; Saul gathered the Israelites and camped at Mount Gilboa.

So the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that my house will be full.

In the same way the servant who had received two thousand coins earned another two thousand.




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