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23 He said, “Why would you go today? It is not a new moon or the Sabbath.” But she said, “It is all right.”[a]

24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on, and do not slow down for me unless I tell you.” 25 So she departed and came to the man of God on Mount Carmel.

When the man of God saw her from a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, it is the Shunammite. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:23 It was customary to approach the prophets on festival days (see 1 Sam 20:5).

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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