2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Note it fell on a day: Heb. there was a day
Note constrained him: Heb. laid hold on him
One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- it fell on
- Heb. there was.
- 2 Kings 4:11, 18
- Shunem
- This city was situated in the tribe of Issachar, five miles south from mount Tabor, according to Eusebius; and is probably the place which he calls Sanim, in Acrabatene, in the neighbourhood of Samaria or Sebaste.
- 2 Kings 4:12; Joshua 19:18; 1 Samuel 28:4; 1 Kings 1:3
- a great woman
- 2 Samuel 19:32; Job 1:3; Job 32:9; Luke 1:15
- she constrained him
- Heb. she laid hold on him.
- Genesis 19:3; Judges 19:20; Proverbs 7:21; Luke 14:23; Luke 24:29; Acts 16:15