2 Kings 4:14
Good News Translation
Elisha asked Gehazi, "What can I do for her then?" He answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is an old man."

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “What then may be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

Contemporary English Version
"Then what can we do for her?" Elisha asked Gehazi. Gehazi replied, "I do know that her husband is old, and that she doesn't have a son."

New American Bible
Later Elisha asked, “What can we do for her?” Gehazi answered, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

she hath no child

Genesis 15:2,3 And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer. . . .

Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

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. . . .

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Genesis 30:1 And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

Judges 13:2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

1 Samuel 1:2,8 And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children. . . .

Luke 1:7 And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were well advanced in years.

Context
The Shunammite Woman
13He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently served us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast thou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people. 14And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.15Then he bid him call her. And when she was called, and stood before the door,…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:13
He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently served us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast thou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people.

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

2 Kings 4:13
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