◄ 2 Kings 4:16 ►
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Good News Translation
and Elisha said to her, "By this time next year you will be holding a son in your arms." "Oh!" she exclaimed. "Please, sir, don't lie to me. You are a man of God!"

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son.” She replied, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant.”

Contemporary English Version
Elisha said to her, "Next year at this time, you'll be holding your own baby son in your arms." "You're a man of God," the woman replied. "Please don't lie to me."

New American Bible
Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be cradling a baby son.” She said, “My lord, you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

About this

Genesis 17:21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

Genesis 18:10,14 And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. . . .

season [heb] set time

Genesis 17:16,17 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him. . . .

Luke 1:13,30,31 But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John. . . .

my lord

2 Kings 2:19 And the men of the city, said to Eliseus . Behold the situation of this city is very good, as thou, my lord, seest: but the waters are very bad, and the ground barren.

do not lie

2 Kings 18:9 In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it,

Psalm 116:11 I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

Luke 1:18-20 And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years. . . .

Context
The Shunammite Woman
…15Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door, 16He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.17And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour that Eliseus had said.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:14
Is there any thing hard to God? According to appointment I will return to thee at this same time, life accompanying, and Sara shall have a son.

2 Kings 4:15
Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door,

2 Kings 4:17
And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour that Eliseus had said.

2 Kings 4:28
And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?

2 Kings 4:15
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