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2 Kings 4:20
“When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.”
Verse in context — 2 Kings 4
18
When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19
He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother.
20
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
21
She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.
22
She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
About 2 Kings
The decline of both kingdoms, leading to exile in Assyria and Babylon.
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