Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

4 Kings 4:14-20 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

15. Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and stood before the door.

16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour, that Eliseus had said.

18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,

19. He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant: Take him, and carry him to his mother.

20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she set him on her knees until noon, and then he died.