2 Kings 4:33

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to the LORD.

King James Version
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord .

English Standard Version
So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the Lord .

New Century Version
Elisha entered the room and shut the door, so only he and the boy were in the room. Then he prayed to the Lord .

New English Translation
He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the Lord .

Amplified Bible
So he went in, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
So he entered and shut the door behind them both, and he prayed to the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He went in therefore, and shut the doore vpon them twayne, and prayed vnto the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to Yahweh.

Contemporary English Version
He walked in, shut the door, and prayed to the Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to Adonai .

Darby Translation
And he went in and shut the door upon them both, and prayed to Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
Elisha went into the room and shut the door. He and the child were alone in the room now. Then he prayed to the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
He went in therefore and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed unto the LORD.

Good News Translation
He closed the door and prayed to the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
He went and closed the door behind the two of them and prayed to Yahweh.

Literal Translation
And he went in and shut the door on both of them, and prayed to Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he wete in, & shut the dore on the both, & made his prayer vnto the LORDE,

American Standard Version
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He went in therefore, & shut the doore vpon them twayne, & prayed vnto the Lorde,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
He went in therefore, and shut the doore vpon them twaine, and prayed vnto the Lord.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Elisaie went into the house, and shut the door upon themselves, the two, and prayed to the Lord.

English Revised Version
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he entride, and closide the dore on hym silf, and on the child; and preiede to the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
and he goeth in and shutteth the door upon them both, and prayeth unto Jehovah.

Update Bible Version
He went in therefore, and shut the door on both of them, and prayed to Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them both, and prayed to the LORD.

World English Bible
He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

New King James Version
He went in therefore, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

New Living Translation
He went in alone and shut the door behind him and prayed to the Lord .

New Life Bible
So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.

New Revised Standard
So he went in and closed the door on the two of them, and prayed to the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he went in, and shut the door upon them two, - and prayed unto Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
So he went in and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the LORD.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸The 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." ²⁰ The servant took him in his arms and carried him to his mother. He lay on her lap until noon and died. ²¹ She took him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in alone, and left. ²² She then called her husband, "Get me a servant and a donkey so I can go to the Holy Man; I'll be back as soon as I can." ²³ "But why today? This isn't a holy day—it's neither New Moon nor Sabbath." She said, "Don't ask questions; I need to go right now. Trust me." ²⁴She went ahead and saddled the donkey, ordering her servant, "Take the lead—and go as fast as you can; I'll tell you if you're going too fast." And so off she went. She came to the Holy Man at Mount Carmel. The Holy Man, spotting her while she was still a long way off, said to his servant Gehazi, "Look out there; why, it's the Shunammite woman! Quickly now. Ask her, ‘Is something wrong? Are you all right? Your husband? Your child?'" She said, "Everything's fine." But when she reached the Holy Man at the mountain, she threw herself at his feet and held tightly to him. Gehazi came up to pull her away, but the Holy Man said, "Leave her alone—can't you see that she's in distress? But God hasn't let me in on why; I'm completely in the dark." Then she spoke up: "Did I ask for a son, master? Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't tease me with false hopes'?" He ordered Gehazi, "Don't lose a minute—grab my staff and run as fast as you can. If you meet anyone, don't even take time to greet him, and if anyone greets you, don't even answer. Lay my staff across the boy's face." The boy's mother said, "As sure as God lives and you live, you're not leaving me behind." And so Gehazi let her take the lead, and followed behind. But Gehazi arrived first and laid the staff across the boy's face. But there was no sound—no sign of life. Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and said, "The boy hasn't stirred." Elisha entered the house and found the boy stretched out on the bed dead. He went into the room and locked the door—just the two of them in the room—and prayed to God . He then got into bed with the boy and covered him with his body, mouth on mouth, eyes on eyes, hands on hands. As he was stretched out over him like that, the boy's body became warm. Elisha got up and paced back and forth in the room. Then he went back and stretched himself upon the boy again. The boy started sneezing—seven times he sneezed!—and opened his eyes. He called Gehazi and said, "Get the Shunammite woman in here!" He called her and she came in. Elisha said, "Embrace your son!" She fell at Elisha's feet, face to the ground in reverent awe. Then she embraced her son and went out with him. Elisha went back down to Gilgal. There was a famine there. While he was consulting with the guild of prophets, he told his servant, "Put a large pot on the fire and cook up some stew for the prophets." One of the men went out into the field to get some herbs; he came across a wild vine and picked gourds from it, filling his gunnysack. He brought them back, sliced them up, and put them in the stew, even though no one knew what kind of plant it was. The stew was then served up for the men to eat. They started to eat, and then exclaimed, "Death in the pot, O man of God! Death in the pot!" Nobody could eat it. Elisha ordered, "Get me some meal." Then he sprinkled it into the stew pot. "Now serve it up to the men," he said. They ate it, and it was just fine—nothing wrong with that stew! One day a man arrived from Baal Shalishah. He brought the man of God twenty loaves of fresh-baked bread from the early harvest, along with a few apples from the orchard. Elisha said, "Pass it around to the people to eat." His servant said, "For a hundred men? There's not nearly enough!" Elisha said, "Just go ahead and do it. God says there's plenty." And sure enough, there was. He passed around what he had—they not only ate, but had leftovers. ²⁶ One day the wife of a man from the guild of prophets called out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead. You well know what a good man he was, devoted to God . And now the man to whom he was in debt is on his way to collect by taking my two children as slaves." Elisha said, "I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me, what do you have in your house?" "Nothing," she said. "Well, I do have a little oil." "Here's what you do," said Elisha. "Go up and down the street and borrow jugs and bowls from all your neighbors. And not just a few—all you can get. Then come home and lock the door behind you, you and your sons. Pour oil into each container; when each is full, set it aside." She did what he said. She locked the door behind her and her sons; as they brought the containers to her, she filled them. When all the jugs and bowls were full, she said to one of her sons, "Another jug, please." He said, "That's it. There are no more jugs." Then the oil stopped. She went and told the story to the man of God. He said, "Go sell the oil and make good on your debts. Live, both you and your sons, on what's left." One day Elisha passed through Shunem. A leading lady of the town talked him into stopping for a meal. And then it became his custom: Whenever he passed through, he stopped by for a meal. "I'm certain," said the woman to her husband, "that this man who stops by with us all the time is a holy man of God. Why don't we add on a small room upstairs and furnish it with a bed and desk, chair and lamp, so that when he comes by he can stay with us?" And so it happened that the next time Elisha came by he went to the room and lay down for a nap. Then he said to his servant Gehazi, "Tell the Shunammite woman I want to see her." He called her and she came to him. Through Gehazi Elisha said, "You've gone far beyond the call of duty in taking care of us; what can we do for you? Do you have a request we can bring to the king or to the commander of the army?" She replied, "Nothing. I'm secure and satisfied in my family." Elisha conferred with Gehazi: "There's got to be something we can do for her. But what?" Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is an old man." "Call her in," said Elisha. He called her and she stood at the open door. Elisha said to her, "This time next year you're going to be nursing an infant son." "O my master, O Holy Man," she said, "don't play games with me, teasing me with such fantasies!" The woman conceived. A year later, just as Elisha had said, she had a son. 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." The servant took him in his arms and carried him to his mother. He lay on her lap until noon and died. She took him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in alone, and left. She then called her husband, "Get me a servant and a donkey so I can go to the Holy Man; I'll be back as soon as I can." "But why today? This isn't a holy day—it's neither New Moon nor Sabbath." She said, "Don't ask questions; I need to go right now. Trust me." She went ahead and saddled the donkey, ordering her servant, "Take the lead—and go as fast as you can; I'll tell you if you're going too fast." And so off she went. She came to the Holy Man at Mount Carmel. The Holy Man, spotting her while she was still a long way off, said to his servant Gehazi, "Look out there; why, it's the Shunammite woman! Quickly now. Ask her, ‘Is something wrong? Are you all right? Your husband? Your child?'" She said, "Everything's fine." ²⁷ But when she reached the Holy Man at the mountain, she threw herself at his feet and held tightly to him. Gehazi came up to pull her away, but the Holy Man said, "Leave her alone—can't you see that she's in distress? But God hasn't let me in on why; I'm completely in the dark." ²⁸ Then she spoke up: "Did I ask for a son, master? Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't tease me with false hopes'?" ²⁹ He ordered Gehazi, "Don't lose a minute—grab my staff and run as fast as you can. If you meet anyone, don't even take time to greet him, and if anyone greets you, don't even answer. Lay my staff across the boy's face."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shut the door: 2 Kings 4:4, Matthew 6:6

prayed: 2 Kings 5:11, 2 Kings 6:17, 2 Kings 6:18, 2 Kings 6:20, 1 Kings 17:20, 1 Kings 17:21, 1 Kings 18:26, 1 Kings 18:27, John 11:41, John 11:42, Acts 9:40, James 5:13-18

Reciprocal: Hosea 9:8 - with Mark 5:40 - when Mark 7:33 - he took Mark 9:29 - by prayer John 11:43 - Lazarus James 5:14 - pray James 5:16 - The effectual

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain,.... Himself and the dead child; that nobody might come in and interrupt him in his prayers for the restoration of it to life, nor see the motions and gestures he used, and the postures he put himself in:

and prayed unto the Lord; that he would restore the child to life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Prayed - Prayer was the only remedy in such a case as this (compare the marginal reference and James 5:16), though it did not exclude the use of other means 2 Kings 4:34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Prayed unto the Lord. — He had no power of his own by which he could restore the child.