2 Kings 4:20
Good News Translation
The servant carried the boy back to his mother, who held him in her lap until noon, at which time he died.

New Revised Standard Version
He carried him and brought him to his mother; the child sat on her lap until noon, and he died.

Contemporary English Version
The servant picked up the boy and carried him to his mother. The boy lay on her lap all morning, and by noon he was dead.

New American Bible
The servant picked him up and carried him to his mother; he sat in her lap until noon, and then died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.

his mother

Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Isaiah 66:13 As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Luke 7:12 And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.

and then died

Genesis 22:2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision; and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.

Genesis 37:3,5 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. . . .

1 Kings 17:17 And it came to pass after this, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.

Ezekiel 24:16-18 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a stroke, and thou shall not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run down. . . .

Luke 2:35 And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.

John 11:3,5,14 His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. . . .

Context
Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son
19He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother. 20And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she sat him on her knees, until noon, and then he died.21And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:19
He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant. Take him, and carry him to his mother.

2 Kings 4:21
And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,

2 Kings 4:19
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