{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-11-01T13:37:55Z", "language": "en", "book": "2-kings-woh", "chapter": 4 }, "data": { "n": 4, "bookSlug": "2-kings-woh", "bookCode": "2KI-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "2 Kings 4 — Elisha: the widow's oil, the Shunammite's son raised, the pot and the twenty loaves", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Hebrew Masoretic text (Westminster Leningrad Codex base, Public Domain) — Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra","sourceLicense":"Public Domain (Westminster Leningrad Codex)","sourceUrl":"https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/II_Kings.4","sourceAccessedVia":"Sefaria v3 API","glossaryVersion":"2.80.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.2.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-5-5 (translator)","claude-opus-5-5 (editor)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T13:00:00Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-5-5 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T11:36:30Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:1","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan and Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: wəhannōšeh bāʾ lāqaḥaṯ ... lô laʿăḇāḏîm 'the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves'; exact. Speech marks balanced."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:2","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §17","Rendsburg, Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (2002)"],"reasoning":"Qere lāḵ translated (Ketiv archaic 2fs -kî correctly identified); ʾāsûḵ šāmen 'a pot of oil' (ASV) with the hapax noted."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:3","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §17","Rendsburg, Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (2002)"],"reasoning":"Qere šəḵēnāyiḵ; ʾal-tamʿîṭî 'do not borrow too few' (lit. 'do not make few'); speech runs to v 4 and closes there."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wəsāḡart haddeleṯ baʿăḏēḵ ... wəhammālēʾ tassîʿî 'set aside what is full'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:5","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §17","Rendsburg, Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (2002)"],"reasoning":"Qere môṣāqeṯ (Ketiv Hiphil participle) both 'pouring'; progressive participles hēm maggîšîm ... wəhîʾ môṣāqeṯ rendered 'were bringing ... was pouring', more exact than the ASV. The bracketed sof pasuq is a source-encoding matter, correctly left as delivered."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"'Bring me another vessel' / 'There is not another vessel' for ʿôḏ kelî; wayyaʿămōḏ haššāmen 'the oil stopped'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:7","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §17","Rendsburg, Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (2002)"],"reasoning":"Two Qere readings (nišyēḵ; ûḇānayiḵ) translated; 'the man of the Elohim' keeps the article (shared ish-ha-elohim entry)."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ʾiššâ ḡəḏôlâ 'a great woman' (literal, sense explained); wattaḥăzeq-bô 'urged him'. Non-blocking: the Shunem-Karmel distance is nearer 25-30 km to el-Muhraqa; 'about 25 km' is acceptable."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ʾîš ʾĕlōhîm qāḏôš: anarthrous, 'a holy man of Elohim' (without article), correctly distinguished from the articular title."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ʿăliyyaṯ-qîr qəṭannâ 'a little chamber on the wall' (ASV) with the roof-chamber sense explained; 'lampstand' for mənôrâ (ASV 'candlestick')."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"'the upper chamber' for hāʿăliyyâ; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Gechazi; naʿar 'servant' / 'child' split kept from the ASV and documented; the gēḥăzî / gêḥăzî spelling note was verified against the MT (vv 12, 31 without yod)."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:13","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ḥāraḏ"],"reasoning":"ḥāraḏt ... ʾeṯ-kol-haḥărāḏâ hazzōʾṯ 'careful ... with all this care' (ASV); nested quote inside Elisha's instruction is correctly closed; 'Is there anything to be spoken for you' renders hăyēš lədabbēr-lāḵ literally."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ʾăḇāl bēn ʾên-lāh 'Truly, she has no son'; Sarah allusion apt."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"bappāṯaḥ 'in the doorway'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:16","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §17","Rendsburg, Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (2002)","GEN-WOH-18:10, 14 (verified \"when the season comes around\")"],"reasoning":"Qere ʾatt; kāʿēṯ ḥayyâ rendered as in genesis-woh so the Sarah allusion is visible; 'you shall be embracing a son' keeps the participle ḥōḇeqeṯ. 'No, my lord, man of the Elohim' exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Concordant with v 16 and Gen 18; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyiḡdal hayyāleḏ ... wayəhî hayyôm 'it came to pass one day'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:19","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan and Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"rōʾšî rōʾšî; sunstroke inference attributed and labelled as not in the text."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wattisgōr baʿăḏô 'shut the door on him'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:22","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"hāʾăṯōnôṯ 'the she-asses' (feminine plural kept, ASV 'asses'); exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:23","status":"approve","citations":["GKC §17","Rendsburg, Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Kings (2002)"],"reasoning":"Two Qere readings (ʾatt; hōleḵeṯ) translated; šālôm 'It shall be well' (ASV) with the five-fold šālôm recorded in commentary, a fair solution."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:24","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"nəhaḡ wāleḵ ʾal-taʿăṣār-lî lirkōḇ 'Drive, and go on; do not hold back the riding for me' literal; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"'at a distance' for minneḡeḏ; hallāz 'that'; the speech opened here continues into v 26 and closes after the nested questions (balanced)."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Three hăšālôm questions nested in single quotes, answer 'It is well'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:27","status":"approve","citations":["NRSV 2 Kgs 4:27 (\"she is in bitter distress\")","HALOT s.v. nep̄eš","1 Sam 1:10; 22:2 (MT)"],"reasoning":"kî-nap̄šāh mārâ-lāh 'for she is in bitter distress': the mar-nep̄eš idiom rendered in plain English with the literal form in commentary, under the Kings nefesh rule; defensible and lens-free. 'YHWH has hidden it from me' exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:28","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"lōʾ ṯašleh ʾōṯî 'Do not deceive me' (ASV); nested quote correct."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:29","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ḥăḡōr māṯneḵā; lōʾ ṯəḇārəḵennû 'do not greet him' (lit. bless); exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:30","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. nep̄eš (periphrasis for the person)","2KI-WOH-2:2 (verified \"as you yourself live\")"],"reasoning":"ḥay-YHWH wəḥê-nap̄šəḵā rendered identically to 2 Kgs 2:2, 4, 6, so the echo of Elisha's oath is visible; 'as you yourself live' is a standard rendering of the oath (NJPS 'as you live')."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:31","status":"approve","citations":["1KI-WOH-18:29 (verified \"no one paying heed\")","BDB s.v. qešeb"],"reasoning":"wəʾên qôl wəʾên qāšeḇ 'no voice and no attention' is accurate. Non-blocking concordance point: the note calls this 'the phrase of 1 Kgs 18:29', where the signed-off line reads 'no one paying heed'; either align (e.g. 'no voice and no heeding') or say in the note that 18:29 is rendered differently."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:32","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"muškāḇ ʿal-miṭṭāṯô 'laid on his bed'; the death is stated plainly, no softening; canon citation range (TBWTT 3:134, verified) correctly signposted."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:33","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyisgōr haddeleṯ bəʿaḏ šənêhem wayyiṯpallēl ʾel-YHWH; exact; the note's statement that the narrative attributes the outcome to YHWH is accurate."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:34","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. gāhar (\"bend down, crouch\")","BDB s.v. gāhar","1KI-WOH-18:42 (verified \"crouched down\")","GKC §17"],"reasoning":"Qere kappāyw translated. Mouth-eyes-palms rendered literally; wayyiḡhar ʿālāyw 'crouched over him' follows the lexical sense of gāhar and makes the three Kings occurrences concordant; it adds no medical term, so the canon's resuscitation reading (TBWTT 3:134, verified) stays in the labelled reception note. Founder point H flagged in glossaryReview only for confirmation."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:35","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. zrr","Rahlfs, Septuaginta, 4 Kgdms 4:35 (synekampsen ... heōs heptakis)","Job 41:10 (MT)"],"reasoning":"'once this way and once that way' literal for ʾaḥaṯ hēnnâ wəʾaḥaṯ hēnnâ; 'crouched over him' concordant with v 34; zrr 'sneezed' traditional sense, the LXX's sevenfold bending by Elisha correctly reported."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:36","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"śəʾî ḇənēḵ 'Take up your son'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:37","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wattištaḥû ʾārṣâ 'bowed herself to the ground'; the decision not to import the Genesis 'made obeisance' is reasoned."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:38","status":"revise","citations":["GEN-WOH-25:29 (verified: \"And Ya'aqov boiled pottage\")","HALOT s.v. nāzîḏ"],"reasoning":"Line approved: 'boil stew' renders nāzîḏ accurately (modern versions 'stew'). Commentary fix: the note says 'nāzîḏ \"stew\" (as Gen 25:29)', but genesis-woh prints 'pottage' at Gen 25:29, so the cross-reference implies a concordance that does not exist. Either change the note to 'nāzîḏ \"stew\" (Gen 25:29, where genesis-woh keeps the ASV \"pottage\")', or, if concordance is wanted, render 'pottage' at 4:38, 39, 40; the reviewer recommends the first (the Kings pass already replaces archaic ASV words, e.g. 'knops')."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:39","status":"approve","citations":["Zohary, Plants of the Bible (1982)","HALOT s.v. paqquʿōṯ"],"reasoning":"gep̄en śāḏeh 'a wild vine', paqquʿōṯ śāḏeh 'wild gourds' (colocynth); wayp̄allaḥ 'sliced'; kî lōʾ yāḏāʿû 'for they did not know them'. Non-blocking: the note cites `peqaim-gourd-ornaments-1-kings-6`, which lives only in the 1-kings-woh overlay; label it as such."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:40","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"'There is death in the pot, O man of the Elohim!' keeps the Hebrew order of the cry; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:41","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ûqəḥû-qemaḥ 'Then bring flour'; dāḇār rāʿ 'nothing harmful'; exact."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:42","status":"approve","citations":["Cogan and Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc.","Lev 2:14; 23:14 (MT)"],"reasoning":"leḥem bikkûrîm ʿeśrîm-leḥem śəʿōrîm wəḵarmel bəṣiqlōnô: ASV sense kept; karmel and the hapax ṣiqlôn correctly explained. Canon-cited (TBWTT 3:136-139, verified): the dehydrated-food reading is confined to a labelled reception note; no lens content in the line."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:43","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. šārēṯ (Piel ptc. \"minister, attendant\")","Ex 24:13 (MT)"],"reasoning":"məšārəṯô 'his attendant' distinguished from naʿar; ʾāḵōl wəhôṯēr 'They shall eat and have some left over' keeps the infinitives' sense; YHWH's word correctly nested."},{"refId":"2KI-WOH-4:44","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"wayyōʾḵəlû wayyôṯirû kiḏḇar YHWH; fulfilment mirrors v 43 verb for verb; exact."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"ka-et-chayah-time-of-life","layer":"central appliesTo extension","status":"approve","citations":["GEN-WOH-18:10, 14 (verified)"],"reasoning":"The rationale names 2 Kgs 4:16-17; line wording identical to genesis-woh."},{"glossary_id":"chei-x-oath-by-the-life-formula","layer":"central appliesTo extension","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Superset verified; 'As YHWH lives' at 4:30."},{"glossary_id":"navi-first-occurrence-abraham","layer":"central appliesTo extension","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Superset verified; 'prophet(s)' at 2 Kgs 4:1, 38; 17:13, 23."},{"glossary_id":"eretz","layer":"central appliesTo extension","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Superset verified; only the 'land' sites are added and the cosmic-merism 'earth' sites (8:23, 27, 43, 53, 60) are correctly excluded."},{"glossary_id":"gahar-crouch-over-kings","layer":"overlay add, shared (direct)","status":"approve","citations":["HALOT s.v. gāhar","BDB s.v. gāhar","1KI-WOH-18:42 (wave A, verified \"crouched down\")"],"reasoning":"Three occurrences, all in Kings; 'bend down, crouch' is the lexical sense, and uniform rendering is a concordance decision with no interpretive content. Direct is correct (founder point H: reviewer recommends keeping)."},{"glossary_id":"hebrew-proper-name-transliteration-convention-kings","layer":"overlay extend, shared","status":"flag-for-human","citations":["genesis-woh / exodus-woh English lines (checked in the data)","Cogan and Tadmor, II Kings (AB 11; 1988), ad loc."],"reasoning":"Table checked against every wave-C/D line. Two factual fixes: genesis-woh's English lines read 'Mitsrayim' 81 times and 'Mitzrayim' 0 times (the 8 'Mitzrayim' are in notes), and exodus-woh's lines read 'Mitsrayim' 38 times, so '(mostly)' here and the report's '206 / 18' should be corrected. Flagged for founder point C (corpus normalization of one name) and point J ('the Shomronites', which the reviewer supports)."},{"glossary_id":"ish-ha-elohim-man-of-the-elohim-prophetic-title-kings","layer":"overlay extend, shared","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Ten articular and one anarthrous site in 2 Kgs 4 verified against the MT."},{"glossary_id":"nefesh-scope-and-spelling-kings","layer":"overlay extend, shared","status":"approve","citations":["NRSV 2 Kgs 4:27","HALOT s.v. nep̄eš"],"reasoning":"Three sites (8:48; 4:27, 30) verified; renderings consistent with 1 Kgs 2:4 and 2 Kgs 2:2."},{"glossary_id":"ketiv-qere-qere-translated-kings","layer":"overlay extend, shared","status":"revise","citations":["GKC §17","source-he-6/8/4/17 bracketed Qere inventory (checked)"],"reasoning":"Every Qere is translated. Count fix: the source has 22 bracketed Ketiv/Qere readings in 19 verses, not 21, because 2 Kgs 17:31 has two (אלה → אֱלֹהֵי and ספרים → סְפַרְוָיִם). Change '21 readings' to '22 readings' (here, the reason line and the editor report) and say 'two readings' in the 17:31 note."},{"glossary_id":"bene-ha-neviim-sons-of-the-prophets-kings","layer":"overlay extend, 2-kings-woh","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"appliesTo only; 4:1, 38 verified."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[],"lensLeakageCheck":"Checked all 44 English lines: no lens leakage. 4:32-37 render the Hebrew plainly ('mouth on his mouth', 'crouched over him', 'sneezed seven times') with no medical vocabulary, and the death is stated without softening; 4:42-44 keep the ASV sense. The canon's resuscitation and dehydrated-food readings (TBWTT 3:134, 3:136-139, verified) are confined to labelled reception notes at 4:34 and 4:42.","quotationCheck":"Double quotes balanced (76 marks); single-quote nesting at 4:13, 26, 28, 43 correct; speeches spanning 4:3-4 and 4:25-26 opened and closed once.","ketivQereInventory":"Bracketed Ketiv/Qere in the source: 22 readings in 19 verses (1 Kgs 6:5, 6, 10, 16, 21, 38; 8:26, 48; 2 Kgs 4:2, 3, 5, 7 x2, 16, 23 x2, 34; 17:13, 16, 21, 31 x2). The Qere is translated at every site. The Editor's '21' counts 17:31 as one reading.","nonBlockingFixes":["4:31: concordance with signed-off 1 Kgs 18:29 ('no one paying heed'), or say in the note that 18:29 is rendered differently.","4:39 note: label `peqaim-gourd-ornaments-1-kings-6` as a 1-kings-woh overlay entry (or make the entry shared).","4:8 note: Shunem to el-Muhraqa is about 25-30 km."],"asvEditionErrors":["1 Kgs 8:15: hosted ASV 'thy father'; ASV 1901 and MT read 'my father' (known).","1 Kgs 8:43: hosted ASV 'is called by my name'; ASV 1901 and MT read 'thy name' (known).","2 Kgs 17:34 (probable, verify against a printed ASV 1901): hosted ASV 'after the former manner'; the ASV, following the KJV, reads 'the former manners' (MT plural kammišpāṭîm hāriʾšōnîm).","2 Kgs 4:25: formatting artifact, a run of five spaces inside the verse ('mount Carmel. And it came to pass').","Throughout (e.g. 1 Kgs 6:1 'Solomon`s', 8:1 'fathers`', 8:41 'name`s', 2 Kgs 17:41 'children`s'): backtick for apostrophe, an encoding artifact of the hosted edition.","1 Kgs 8:50: hosted ASV ends without the verse-final semicolon (trivial)."],"escalationReportAdjustments":"Initial verdicts on all 189 verses, 15 overlay ops and 30 central ops were formed from the chapters, the MT source, the ASV, the glossaries and the diffs, with mechanical checks (Hebrew text identical to source-he-*.json in every paragraph; bracketed Qere inventory; glossaryRefs resolution against central 2.78.0 + wave-B + wave-C/D and both overlays; appliesTo superset check of every central modify op against 2.78.0 + wave-B; double-quote balance; genesis-woh / exodus-woh / signed-off Kings lines for every cross-reference). Only then was wave-cd-editor-report.md read. No verdict changed. The report added three things the reviewer recorded: (1) its genesis-woh count ('Mitsrayim' 206x, 'Mitzrayim' 18x) does not match the English lines (81 / 0; the 8 'Mitzrayim' are in notes), corrected in the names-entry review and founder point C; (2) its 'Other notes' bullet says English forms were not added to chapter titles, but the files carry 'Shelomoh (Solomon)' and 'Shomron (Samaria) ... Yisra'el (Israel)' as its own 'Chapter titles' section says, so that bullet is stale; (3) its founder lettering (A, C-J) is used in the recommendations, with B confirmed as settled. The report's spot-check list was checked: NJPS 'Great Hall' / 'stately House' / 'thick cloud' confirmed; LXX 8:53a and LXX 4 Kgdms 4:35 descriptions confirmed; Aquila/Symmachus chrēmatistērion for dəḇîr confirmed.","founderDecisionRecommendations":{"A-temple-rooms":"Ratify 'porch' / 'great hall' / 'inner sanctuary' / 'the most holy place', with the context clause (hêḵāl = 'temple'/'palace' for a whole building). 'Oracle' rests on a rejected etymology and 'the temple of the house' (6:3) misleads in a chapter where the building is the 'house'. Confirm or drop the 'Alter' attribution in the central entry.","C-Mitzrayim-vs-Mitsrayim":"Keep Kings on 'Mitzrayim' (the tz rule ratified at wave A covers Tzidon, Tzarfat, Tzadoq; Kings would be internally inconsistent otherwise). Corpus facts: genesis-woh English lines read 'Mitsrayim' 81x and 'Mitzrayim' 0x (8 'Mitzrayim' only in notes); exodus-woh lines 'Mitsrayim' 38x. The report's '206 / 18' and the overlay's '(mostly)' overstate the mix. If one corpus spelling is wanted, normalize genesis-woh/exodus-woh to 'Mitzrayim' in a separate mechanical pass rather than making Kings an exception to its own tsade rule.","D-8:23-lower-case-elohim":"Ratify clause 5. In ʾên-kāmôḵā ʾĕlōhîm the noun is the class compared, so a capital would make YHWH be compared with himself; the commentary keeps the monotheistic and incomparability readings open. This is consistent with 'there is no Elohim in Yisra'el' (2 Kgs 1:3), where the referent is YHWH.","E-17:26-27-manner-and-Elohim-of-the-land":"Ratify both. 'Manner' is an attested sense of mišpāṭ (KJV throughout vv 26-40) and keeps the keyword concordant while reserving 'law' for tôrâ. The capital follows the referent rule with the narrator's v 25 identification (KJV and NJPS also capitalize); the ASV lower-case perspective reading is in commentary.","F-law-vs-torah":"Keep 'law' in Kings (Deuteronomistic written law, 2 Kgs 17:37 'which he wrote'; consensus). Decide exodus-woh's 'torah' (Ex 13:9; 16:4) at the next Exodus/Deuteronomy pass with a central entry; the two renderings can coexist by register if that entry says so.","G-exalted-house":"Ratify 'an exalted house' (post-Ugaritic consensus; RSV/NRSV). Lens-neutral; the divergence from the KJV wording quoted in TBWTT is a quotation matter, not a translation one, and the reception note records it.","H-crouched":"Ratify 'crouched' at all three gāhar sites (lexical sense; concordance with signed-off 1 Kgs 18:42; no interpretive content, and it does not lean toward or against the canon's resuscitation reading).","I-mercy-and-kindness":"Keep both. 8:50 'mercy' is the exact Gen 43:14 idiom with genesis-woh's 'mercy'; 8:23 'kindness' applies the central solitary-ḥeseḏ entry as at 1 Kgs 2:7. 'keeping the covenant and the kindness' is stiffer than 'steadfast love', but the commentary gives that sense.","J-Shomronites":"Ratify 'the Shomronites' (hapax gentilic meaning the Israelite inhabitants of Shomron; 'Samaritans' is anachronistic; the -ite rule matches 'the Avvites', 'the Sefarvites' and the ASV's own gentilic forms).","B-shamayim":"No decision needed: the 12 'heavens' sites in 1 Kgs 8, 'skies' at 8:35 and 17:16 'host of the heavens' all apply the ratified wave-A rule correctly."},"summary":"44 verdicts: 43 approve, 1 revise, 0 flag-for-human (4:38 revise). Glossary ops relevant to this chapter: 10 (8 approve, 1 revise, 1 flag-for-human). No lens leakage. Flags are founder-confirmation points only (A, C-J); the reviewer recommends ratifying all of them. Status awaiting-human."}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:1", "text": "Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, \"Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared YHWH; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.\"" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:2", "text": "And Elisha said to her, \"What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?\" And she said, \"Your maidservant has nothing at all in the house except a pot of oil.\"" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:3", "text": "Then he said, \"Go, borrow vessels for yourself from outside, from all your neighbors — empty vessels; do not borrow too few." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:4", "text": "And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour into all these vessels; and set aside what is full.\"" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:5", "text": "So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her, and she was pouring." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:6", "text": "And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, \"Bring me another vessel.\" And he said to her, \"There is not another vessel.\" And the oil stopped." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:7", "text": "Then she came and told the man of the Elohim. And he said, \"Go, sell the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons shall live on the rest.\"" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:8", "text": "And it came to pass one day that Elisha passed over to Shunem, and a great woman was there; and she urged him to eat bread. And so it was, whenever he passed by, he would turn aside there to eat bread." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:9", "text": "And she said to her husband, \"Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of Elohim who passes by us continually." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:10", "text": "Let us make, I pray, a little chamber on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he will turn aside there.\"" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:11", "text": "And it came to pass one day that he came there, and he turned aside into the upper chamber and lay down there." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:12", "text": "And he said to Gechazi his servant, \"Call this Shunammite.\" And he called her, and she stood before him." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:13", "text": "And he said to him, \"Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? Is there anything to be spoken for you to the king, or to the captain of the host?'\" And she said, \"I dwell among my own people.\"" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:14", "text": "And he said, \"What then is to be done for her?\" And Gechazi said, \"Truly, she has no son, and her husband is old.\"" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:15", "text": "And he said, \"Call her.\" And he called her, and she stood in the doorway." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:16", "text": "And he said, \"At this appointed time, when the season comes around, you shall be embracing a son.\" And she said, \"No, my lord, man of the Elohim, do not lie to your maidservant.\"" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:17", "text": "And the woman conceived and bore a son at that appointed time, when the season came around, as Elisha had spoken to her." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:18", "text": "And the child grew; and it came to pass one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:19", "text": "And he said to his father, \"My head, my head!\" And he said to the servant, \"Carry him to his mother.\"" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:20", "text": "And he carried him and brought him to his mother; and he sat on her knees until noon, and he died." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:21", "text": "And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of the Elohim, and shut the door on him, and went out." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:22", "text": "And she called to her husband and said, \"Send me, I pray, one of the servants and one of the she-asses, that I may run to the man of the Elohim and come back.\"" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:23", "text": "And he said, \"Why are you going to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.\" And she said, \"It shall be well.\"" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:24", "text": "Then she saddled the she-ass and said to her servant, \"Drive, and go on; do not hold back the riding for me unless I tell you.\"" },{ "n": 25, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:25", "text": "So she went and came to the man of the Elohim at Mount Karmel. And it came to pass, when the man of the Elohim saw her at a distance, that he said to Gechazi his servant, \"Behold, there is that Shunammite." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:26", "text": "Run now, I pray, to meet her, and say to her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'\" And she said, \"It is well.\"" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:27", "text": "And she came to the man of the Elohim at the mountain and caught hold of his feet. And Gechazi came near to push her away; but the man of the Elohim said, \"Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; and YHWH has hidden it from me and has not told me.\"" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:28", "text": "Then she said, \"Did I ask a son of my lord? Did I not say, 'Do not deceive me'?\"" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:29", "text": "Then he said to Gechazi, \"Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet any man, do not greet him; and if any man greets you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the child.\"" },{ "n": 30, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:30", "text": "And the mother of the child said, \"As YHWH lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.\" And he arose and followed her." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:31", "text": "And Gechazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was no voice and no attention. And he went back to meet him and told him, saying, \"The child has not awakened.\"" },{ "n": 32, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:32", "text": "And Elisha came into the house, and behold, the child was dead, laid on his bed." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:33", "text": "And he went in and shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to YHWH." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:34", "text": "And he went up and lay upon the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms; and he crouched over him, and the flesh of the child grew warm." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:35", "text": "Then he turned back and walked in the house once this way and once that way, and went up and crouched over him; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:36", "text": "And he called Gechazi and said, \"Call this Shunammite.\" So he called her, and she came to him. And he said, \"Take up your son.\"" },{ "n": 37, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:37", "text": "Then she came and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son and went out." },{ "n": 38, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:38", "text": "And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, \"Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.\"" },{ "n": 39, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:39", "text": "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, his lap full, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew; for they did not know them." },{ "n": 40, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:40", "text": "And they poured it out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out and said, \"There is death in the pot, O man of the Elohim!\" And they could not eat it." },{ "n": 41, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:41", "text": "But he said, \"Then bring flour.\" And he threw it into the pot and said, \"Pour out for the people, that they may eat.\" And there was nothing harmful in the pot." },{ "n": 42, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:42", "text": "And a man came from Ba'al-Shalishah and brought the man of the Elohim bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, \"Give to the people, that they may eat.\"" },{ "n": 43, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:43", "text": "And his attendant said, \"How shall I set this before a hundred men?\" But he said, \"Give to the people, that they may eat; for thus says YHWH, 'They shall eat and have some left over.'\"" },{ "n": 44, "refId": "2KI-WOH-4:44", "text": "So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of YHWH." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/2-kings-woh/chapters/4", "book": "/v1/library/books/2-kings-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/2-kings-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }