📖WEB · 2 Kings 4:12
What does 2 Kings 4:12 mean?
"He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him."
— 2 Kings 4:12 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.
Please let us make a little room on the roof. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”
One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.
He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.
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