Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
2 Kings 4:18
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And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
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¶ And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
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When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.
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And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
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2 Kings 4
16 And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
17 But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
19 “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
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