Haftarah
The haftarah for the parshah is:
- for Ashkenazi Jews: 2 Kings 4:1-37
- for Sephardi Jews: 2 Kings 4:1-23
- for Karaite Jews: Isaiah 33:17–35:10
The parshah and haftarah in 2 Kings both tell of God’s gift of sons to childless women. In both the parshah and the haftarah: God’s representative visits the childless woman, whose household extends the visitor generous hospitality; the husband’s age raises doubt about the couple’s ability to have children; God’s representative announces that a child will come at a specified season in the next year; the woman conceives and bears a child as God’s representative had announced; death threatens the promised child; and God’s representative intervenes to save the promised child.
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