KJV ORIGINAL
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
She called to her husband and said, 'Please send me one of the servants and a donkey, so I can quickly go to the man of God and come back.'
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
The Shunammite woman is asking her husband for transportation so she can urgently travel to see Elisha the prophet.
📚 Historical Context
This verse occurs during the story of the Shunammite woman whose son had just died. She was a wealthy woman who had shown great hospitality to the prophet Elisha, and God had blessed her with a son through Elisha's prayer. Now that her miracle child had died, she was desperately seeking out Elisha for help, though she hadn't yet told her husband what had happened.
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