16He said, |At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.| She said, |No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.|


In Context

13 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.|

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

15 He said, |Call her.| When he had called her, she stood in the door.

16 He said, |At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.| She said, |No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.|

17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

18 When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.

2 Kings 4:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:16"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!"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, [thou] man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:16He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And he said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16And he said, At this appointed time, when thy term is come, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And he said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16and he saith, 'At this season, according to the time of life, thou art embracing a son;' and she saith, 'Nay, my lord, O man of God, do not lie unto thy maid-servant.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.