Bible verse
Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
2 Kings 4:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Kings 4.
5 So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.
6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
9 Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
10 Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11 One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
13 and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
KJV
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this [is] an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
ASV
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.
ERV
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
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