2 Kings 4:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be cradling a baby son.” She said, “My lord, you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:21

But my covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you by this time next year.

Genesis 18:10

One of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and Sarah will then have a son.” Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, just behind him.

1 Kings 17:18

So she said to Elijah, “Why have you done this to me, man of God? Have you come to me to call attention to my guilt and to kill my son?”

1 Kings 17:24

The woman said to Elijah, “Now indeed I know that you are a man of God, and it is truly the word of the Lord that you speak.”

1 Kings 18:9

But Obadiah said, “What sin has your servant committed, that you are handing me over to Ahab to be killed?

2 Kings 2:19

The inhabitants of the city complained to Elisha, “The site of the city is fine indeed, as my lord can see, but the water is bad and the land sterile.”

2 Kings 4:15

Elisha said, “Call her.” He did so, and when she stood at the door,

2 Kings 4:17

Yet the woman conceived, and by the same time the following year she had given birth to a son, as Elisha had promised;

2 Kings 4:28

She said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not mislead me’?”

Psalm 116:11

I said in my alarm, “All men are liars!”

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall name him John.