2 Kings 4:31
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
Note hearing: Heb. attention
Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- neither voice
- 1 Samuel 14:37; 1 Samuel 28:6; Ezekiel 14:3; Matthew 17:16–21; Mark 9:19–29; Acts 19:13–17
- hearing
- Heb. attention.
- 1 Kings 18:26, 29
- not awaked
- Job 14:12; Daniel 12:2; Mark 5:39; John 11:11, 43, 44; Ephesians 5:14