When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers. He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out. She called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the […]
⛓ Read 2 Kings 4 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Elisha's raising of the Shunammite's only child supplies the closest structural parallel: an only/beloved child dies, mourners are excluded, the prophet acts privately and the child revives. Strong narrative Volume and Recurrence in Luke's prophet-typology.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Elisha restores the Shunammite's dead son, again a prophet giving life to a child amid a parent's plea. Reinforces (with 1 Kings 17) the son-restored-by-prophetic-word type; high Recurrence strengthens the channel.
High confidence