2 Kings 4:28
Good News Translation
The woman said to him, "Sir, did I ask you for a son? Didn't I tell you not to get my hopes up?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, Do not mislead me?”

Contemporary English Version
The woman said, "Sir, I begged you not to get my hopes up, and I didn't even ask you for a son."

New American Bible
She said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not mislead me’?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Did I desire

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

Do not

2 Kings 4:16 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.

Context
Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son
27And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 28And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?29Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:16
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.

2 Kings 4:29
Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

2 Kings 4:27
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