2 Kings 4:10
Good News Translation
Let's build a small room on the roof, put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it, and he can stay there whenever he visits us."

New Revised Standard Version
Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that he can stay there whenever he comes to us.”

Contemporary English Version
Why don't we build him a small room on the flat roof of our house? We can put a bed, a table and chair, and an oil lamp in it. Then whenever he comes, he can stay with us."

New American Bible
let us arrange a little room on the roof and furnish it for him with a bed, table, chair, and lamp, so that when he comes to us he can stay there.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us he may abide there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us he may abide there.

Let us

Isaiah 32:8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.

Matthew 10:41,42 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. . . .

Matthew 25:40 And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

Mark 9:41 For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

Luke 8:3 And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susanna and many others who ministered unto him of their substance.

Romans 12:13 Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

Hebrews 13:2 And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

1 Peter 4:9,10 Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring, . . .

a little chamber.

2 Kings 3:20 And it came to pass, in the morning, when the sacrifices used to be offered, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

1 Kings 17:19 And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

Context
The Shunammite Woman
9And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us. 10Let us, therefore, make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us he may abide there.11Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the chamber, and rested there.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:41
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man.

Matthew 10:42
And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he shall not lose his reward.

Matthew 25:40
And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

Romans 12:13
Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

2 Kings 4:11
Now, there was a certain day, when he came, and turned into the chamber, and rested there.

2 Kings 4:9
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