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2 Kings 4:18

And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Children;   Elisha;   Miracles;   Shunammite;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Diseases;   Health-Disease;   Home;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Sun-Stroke;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;   Reaping;   Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gehazi;   Shunem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disease;   Heal, Health;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hospitality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shunem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Diseases;   Elisha;   Furniture;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Resurrection;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Child, Children;   Gehazi;   Marriage;   Medicine;   Sun;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gehazi ;   Shunammite ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Gehazi;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gehazi;   Shunem;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.
Hebrew Names Version
When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
King James Version
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
English Standard Version
When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.
New Century Version
The boy grew up and one day went out to his father, who was with the grain harvesters.
New English Translation
The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.
Amplified Bible
When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
New American Standard Bible
When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father, and to the reapers.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the child was grown. And the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.
Contemporary English Version
One day while the boy was still young, he was out in the fields with his father, where the workers were harvesting the crops.
Complete Jewish Bible
When the child was old enough, he went out one day to be with his father, who was with the reapers.
Darby Translation
And the child grew, and it came to pass one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
Easy-to-Read Version
The boy grew. One day the boy went out into the fields to see his father and the men cutting the grain.
George Lamsa Translation
Now when the child had grown, he went out on a certain day to his father who was with the reapers.
Good News Translation
Some years later, at harvest time, the boy went out one morning to join his father, who was in the field with the harvest workers.
Lexham English Bible
The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father and to the reapers.
Literal Translation
And the boy grew, and the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But whan ye childe was growne, it fortuned, yt he wente forth to his father vnto the reapers,
American Standard Version
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
Bible in Basic English
Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, and to the reapers,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
King James Version (1611)
And when the child was growen, it fell on a day that hee went out to his father, to the reapers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the child grew: and it came to pass when he went out to his father to the reapers,
English Revised Version
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the child encreeside; and whanne sum day was, and the child was goon out, and yede to his fadir,
Young's Literal Translation
And the lad groweth, and the day cometh that he goeth out unto his father, unto the reapers,
Update Bible Version
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when the child was grown, it happened on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
World English Bible
When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
New King James Version
And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
New Living Translation
One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters.
New Life Bible
When the child was grown, he went out one day to his father who was with those gathering grain.
New Revised Standard
When the child was older, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when the child was grown, it came to pass, on a certain day, that he went out unto his father, unto the reapers;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,
Revised Standard Version
When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.
THE MESSAGE
The child grew up. One day he went to his father, who was working with the harvest hands, complaining, "My head, my head!" His father ordered a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.

Contextual Overview

18And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.19"My head! My head!" he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother." 20After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. 21And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out. 22And the woman called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return." 23"Why would you go to him today?" he replied. "It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath." "Everything is all right," she said. 24Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, "Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you." 25So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman. 26Please run out now to meet her and ask, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?'" And she answered, "Everything is all right." 27When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to the reapers: Ruth 2:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:17 - the son of the woman 2 Kings 4:8 - it fell on 2 Kings 8:1 - whose son

Cross-References

Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the child was grown,.... Perhaps was six or seven years of age, or more:

it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers; it was harvest time, and the men were reaping the corn in the fields; and his father, though a wealthy man, was with them to direct them, and see they did their business well, as Boaz formerly; and the child went out from the house to the field, to see his father and the reapers, for his recreation and diversion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 4:18. When the child was grown — We know not of what age he was, very likely four or six, if not more years; for he could go out to the reapers in the harvest field, converse, &c.


 
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