14"What can be done for her?" Elisha asked. Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son and her husband is old."


In Context

11 One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there.

12 He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite." So he called her, and she stood before him.

13 Elisha said to him, "Tell her, 'You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?' " She replied, "I have a home among my own people."

14 "What can be done for her?" Elisha asked. Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son and her husband is old."

15 Then Elisha said, "Call her." So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.

16 "About this time next year," Elisha said, "you will hold a son in your arms." "No, my lord," she objected. "Don't mislead your servant, O man of God!"

2nd Kings 4:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said, What then [is] to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said : What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi said, Verily, she has no son, and her husband is old.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14He said, |What then is to be done for her?| Gehazi answered, |Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:14And he saith, 'And what — to do for her?' and Gehazi saith, 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is aged.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no child, and her husband is old.