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23 The woman’s husband said, “Why would you want to go to the man of God today? It isn’t the New Moon or Sabbath day.”

She said, “Goodbye!”[a]

24 Then she put a saddle on a donkey and said to her servant, “Let’s go, and hurry! Go slow only when I tell you.”

25 The woman went to Mount Carmel to get the man of God.

The man of God saw the Shunammite woman coming from far away and said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:23 Goodbye Or “Everything is all right.” Literally, “Peace.”

23 “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon(A) or the Sabbath.”

“That’s all right,” she said.

24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.” 25 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.(B)

When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite!

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