2 Kings 4:18

18 crevit autem puer et cum esset quaedam dies et egressus isset ad patrem suum ad messores

2 Kings 4:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:18

And when the child was grown
Perhaps was six or seven years of age, or more:

it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers;
it was harvest time, and the men were reaping the corn in the fields; and his father, though a wealthy man, was with them to direct them, and see they did their business well, as Boaz formerly; and the child went out from the house to the field, to see his father and the reapers, for his recreation and diversion.

2 Kings 4:18 In-Context

16 dixit ad eam in tempore isto et in hac eadem hora si vita comes fuerit habebis in utero filium at illa respondit noli quaeso domine mi vir Dei noli mentiri ancillae tuae
17 et concepit mulier et peperit filium in tempore et in hora eadem quam dixerat Heliseus
18 crevit autem puer et cum esset quaedam dies et egressus isset ad patrem suum ad messores
19 ait patri suo caput meum caput meum at ille dixit puero tolle et duc eum ad matrem suam
20 qui cum tulisset et adduxisset eum ad matrem suam posuit eum illa super genua sua usque ad meridiem et mortuus est
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