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22 Then she called to her husband and asked him, “Please send me one of the servants, along with one of the donkeys, so I can ride quickly to see that godly man.[a] I’ll be right back.”

23 He asked her, “What’s the point of visiting him today? It’s not a New Moon, and it isn’t the Sabbath!”

But she kept saying, “Things will go well.”[b]

24 So she saddled a donkey and told her servant, “Forward, driver! Don’t slow down on my account, unless I tell you!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:22 Or that man of God
  2. 2 Kings 4:23 Lit. Peace; i.e. a general statement of good will; and so through v. 26

22 She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”

23 “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon(A) or the Sabbath.”

“That’s all right,” she said.

24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.”

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