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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Shunammite woman receives Elisha, builds him a room, and is rewarded with a son and his resurrection. Together with the Zarephath account this supplies the OT pattern that receiving a prophet yields a prophet's reward (10:41).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Beyond the resuscitation itself, the Shunammite cycle frames the dead one laid in a prepared upper chamber and messengers sent urgently to fetch the man of God ('do not slacken your riding'); Joppa's disciples 'sent two men... imploring him not to delay.' The send-for-the-prophet-without-delay motif reinforces the Elisha typology.
Medium confidence