2 Kings 4:26 (WEB)
Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’” She answered, “It is well.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“For when that infant arose not, Eliseus came himself, now bearing the type of the Lord, who had sent before his servant with the staff, as though with the Law: he came to the child that was lying dead, he laid his limbs upon it.” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 20–36.
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Tertullian
“For Elisha enjoined upon his servant the same salutation when he met the Shunammite; he was to say to her: “Peace to thine husband, peace to thy child.”” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 26. He reads the optative instead of the indicative.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“But Elisha, as one ignorant, said to the Shunamite;—Peace to thee and peace be to the child.” — editor's note: 2 Kings iv. 26.
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Cross-references · 3
Genesis 29:6 and 2 Kings 4:26 share the same wording (12 words).
2 Samuel 18:29 and 2 Kings 4:26 share the same wording (12 words).
2 Samuel 20:9 and 2 Kings 4:26 share the same wording (13 words).