2 Kings 4:16

16 And he said, "At this time {next spring}, you [will be] embracing a son." She said, "No, my lord, [O] man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!"

2 Kings 4:16 In-Context

14 Then he said, "What may be done for her?" Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."
15 And he said, "Call for her," so he called for her and she stood in the doorway.
16 And he said, "At this time {next spring}, you [will be] embracing a son." She said, "No, my lord, [O] man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!"
17 But the woman conceived, and she bore a son {in the spring}, which Elisha had promised to her.
18 The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "about that season as the time of life"
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