{"id":27790,"date":"2011-06-16T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=27790"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:30:33","slug":"what-was-the-name-of-the-son-of-the-shunammite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-was-the-name-of-the-son-of-the-shunammite\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the name of the son of the Shunammite?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>What was the boy&#8217;s name in II Kings who died and then sneezed seven times?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The Shunammite woman is mentioned in II Kings 4:8-37 and II Kings 8:1-6 and she is never referred to by name, nor is the name of her husband or son given. It really isn&#8217;t important to the stories related.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What was the boy&#8217;s name in II Kings who died and then sneezed seven times? Answer: The Shunammite woman is mentioned in II Kings 4:8-37 and II Kings 8:1-6 and she is never referred to by name, nor is the name of her husband or son given. It really isn&#8217;t important to the stories&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[1151,1128],"class_list":["post-27790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-elisha","tag-ii-kings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20226,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-the-famine-mentioned-in-ii-kings-81-the-same-famine-mentioned-in-ii-kings-624-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":27790,"position":0},"title":"Was the famine mentioned in II Kings 8:1 the same famine mentioned in II Kings 6:24-31?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Was the famine in II Kings 8:1 the same famine as in Samaria in II Kings 6:24-31? Did the famine in II Kings 8:1 include all the land of Israel? Answer: The first few chapters of II Kings are a bit difficult to place into a timeline because often\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2160,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-in-the-bible-did-a-jewish-woman-become-queen\/","url_meta":{"origin":27790,"position":1},"title":"Where in the Bible did a Jewish woman become queen?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What chapter in the Bible did a Jewish woman become queen? Answer: Actually, Jewish queens are mentioned in several places. Athaliah made herself queen of Judah after her son's death by killing all her grandsons (though she ended up missing one). 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His mother's name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43889,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-was-adonijah-killed-by-solomons-orders\/","url_meta":{"origin":27790,"position":3},"title":"Why was Adonijah killed by Solomon&#8217;s orders?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Why was Adonijah killed by Solomon's orders? 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