When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed. He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh. He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm. Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Elisha enters the room where the dead child lies, puts everyone out, prays, and the child opens her/his eyes. 'Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed... he said, Tabitha, get up! She opened her eyes' matches the sequence point-for-point: privacy, prayer, command, the opening of the eyes. Highest-volume parallel in the pericope.
High confidenceElisha's raising of the Shunammite woman's only son is the second prophetic resurrection paradigm behind Nain. The motif of a single beloved son restored to a grieving mother, and the prophet's bodily proximity to the corpse, reinforce the doubled Elijah/Elisha typology Luke deploys. Recurrence with 7:11-17 is strengthened by Luke 9:8,19 expectations of a returning prophet.
High confidenceElisha raises the Shunammite's son: he enters alone with the dead child, shuts the door (cf. Jesus putting out the mourners, v.40), and the child revives; the mother falls at his feet (cf. Jairus, v.22). The closest single template for Jairus' daughter — privacy, exclusion of others, parental supplication, and bodily resurrection of a child — making the Elisha narrative a primary subtext.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul enters in to the sick father of Publius, prays, lays hands on him and heals him; the Elisha pattern of a prophet entering the sickroom and praying for restoration supplies a background healing-narrative template, with the further healings of all the island's sick recalling the prophet's wider miracles.
Low confidenceElisha's raising of the Shunammite's son by personal touch offers another prophetic-healing template for Jesus' gesture of taking the hand and 'raising' the feverish woman. The contact is thematic and the language non-distinctive, so the echo is faint; included to register the prophet-healer typology underlying the miracle.
Low confidenceElisha's restoration of the Shunammite's child in the house resonates with domestic healing; part of the Elijah/Elisha typology but faint here, contested.
Low confidence◇ Figural3
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The Elisha raising of the Shunammite's son is the closest structural twin: prophet enters where the dead child lies, stretches/lies upon him, life returns, and the living child is restored to the household 'greatly comforted.' The deliverance of the boy 'alive' (v.12) mirrors the son given back. Two resurrection narratives converge here, reinforcing the Elijah/Elisha pattern.
High confidenceElisha raising the Shunammite's son completes the prophetic resurrection pattern behind the Lazarus sign; the restored child and Jesus' restored friend share the dead-son-revived type. High recurrence with 1 Kings 17; coherence with John's portrayal of Jesus as the prophet greater than Elijah/Elisha.
High confidenceElisha raises the Shunammite's daughter, entering the room, acting on the child's body, and restoring her. The closest structural type (a girl, an anxious parent, prophet enters and revives), illuminating Jesus' act in the ruler's house.
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