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22 She called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys so that I can hurry to the man of God and return.” 23 He said, “Why would you go today? It is not a new moon or the Sabbath.” But she said, “It is all right.”[a]

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:23 It was customary to approach the prophets on festival days (see 1 Sam 20:5).

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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