2 Kings 4:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be cradling a baby son.” She said, “My lord, you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant.”(A) 17 Yet the woman conceived, and by the same time the following year she had given birth to a son, as Elisha had promised; 18 and the child grew up healthy.(B)
One day the boy went out to his father among the reapers.
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