2 Kings 4:29
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.”
Note Literally Gird up your loins
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Gird up thy loins
- 2 Kings 9:1; 1 Kings 18:46; Ephesians 6:14; 1 Peter 1:13
- take my
- 2 Kings 2:14; Exodus 4:17
- salute him not
- Luke 10:4
- lay my staff
- 2 Kings 2:8, 14; Exodus 7:19, 20; Exodus 14:16; Joshua 6:4, 5; Acts 3:16; Acts 19:12