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2 Kings 4:28
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Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
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Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
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Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”
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Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
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2 Kings 4
26 Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
28 Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
29 So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
30 And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
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