◄ 2 Kings 4:9 ►
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Good News Translation
She said to her husband, "I am sure that this man who comes here so often is a holy man.

New Revised Standard Version
She said to her husband, “Look, I am sure that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God.

Contemporary English Version
Some time later the woman said to her husband, "I'm sure the man who comes here so often is a prophet of God.

New American Bible
So she said to her husband, “I know that he is a holy man of God. Since he visits us often,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.

she said

Proverbs 31:10,11 Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. . . .

1 Peter 3:1 In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

this is

Matthew 5:16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and without blame we have been to you that have believed:

Titus 1:8 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

2 Peter 1:21 For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 3:2 That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.

man of God

Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the children of Israel, before his death.

1 Kings 13:1 And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense.

1 Kings 17:18,24 And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son? . . .

1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

Context
The Shunammite Woman
8And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread: and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread. 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.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:7
And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

2 Chronicles 25:7
But a man of God came to him, and said: O king, let not the army of Israel go out with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel, and all the children of Ephraim:

2 Kings 4:8
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