28"Did I ask you for a son, my lord?" she said. "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't raise my hopes'?"


In Context

25 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the Shunammite!

26 Run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' " "Everything is all right," she said.

27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why."

28 "Did I ask you for a son, my lord?" she said. "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't raise my hopes'?"

29 Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy's face."

30 But the child's mother said, "As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.

2nd Kings 4:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:28And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:28And she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:28Then she said, Did I ask a son from my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:28Then she said, |Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:28And she saith, 'Did I ask a son from my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?