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23 He asked her, “What’s the point of visiting him today? It’s not a New Moon, and it isn’t the Sabbath!”

But she kept saying, “Things will go well.”[a]

24 So she saddled a donkey and told her servant, “Forward, driver! Don’t slow down on my account, unless I tell you!” 25 So out she went and eventually she arrived at Mount Carmel to visit the man of God.

When the man of God noticed her from a distance, he told his attendant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the woman from Shunem!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:23 Lit. Peace; i.e. a general statement of good will; and so through v. 26

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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