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2 Kings 4:16
“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.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 4
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.
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The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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