It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually. Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he […]
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The women who 'served them from their possessions' faintly recall the wealthy Shunammite woman who provisions and hosts Elisha and his entourage. Coherence is moderate (female patron supporting a prophetic band) but Volume is low and there is no verbal contact, so the echo is contested.
Low confidence'Prepare a guest room for me' faintly recalls the Shunammite woman who prepares a small upper room for Elisha so the man of God may lodge with her. The shared motif is hospitality of a lodging readied for an honored servant of God, though Paul uses ordinary travel language without scriptural signal.
Low confidence