2 Kings 4:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ One day Elisha went to Shunem.  A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 19:3

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was a very old man #– #eighty years old #– #and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the needs of the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

1 Kings 1:3

They searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel; they found Abishag  the Shunammite  , and brought her to the king.

2 Kings 4:18

The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.

Job 1:3

His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys,  and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

Job 32:9

It is not only the old who are wise or the elderly who understand how to judge.

Proverbs 7:21

She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.

Matthew 25:17

In the same way the man with two earned two more.

Luke 1:15

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer.  He will be filled with the Holy Spirit  while still in his mother’s womb.

Luke 14:23

‘Then the master told the servant, “Go out into the roads and hedges and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

But they urged him, ‘Stay with us, because it’s almost evening, and now the day is almost over.’ So he went in to stay with them.

Acts 16:15

After she and her household were baptised, she urged us, ‘If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.’  And she persuaded us.

Joshua 19:18

Their territory went to Jezreel, and included Chesulloth, Shunem,

Judges 19:20

‘Welcome! ’ said the old man. ‘I’ll take care of everything you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.’

1 Samuel 28:4

The Philistines gathered and camped at Shunem. So Saul gathered all Israel, and they camped at Gilboa.