2Kings 4-5 - Prayer Tents

2Kings 4

Elisha and the Widow’s Oil

4Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves."H6817H259H802H802H1121H5030H477H559H5650H376H4191H3045H5650H3373H3068H5383H935H3947H8147H3206H56502Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil."H477H559H6213H5046H3426H1004H559H8198H1004H610H80813He said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not just a few.H559H3212H7592H3627H2351H7934H7386H3627H45914Then go in, and shut the door behind you and your children, and start pouring into all these vessels; when each is full, set it aside."H935H5462H1817H1121H3332H3627H5265H43925So she left him and shut the door behind her and her children; they kept bringing vessels to her, and she kept pouring.H3212H5462H1817H1157H1121H1992H5066H33326When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." But he said to her, "There are no more." Then the oil stopped flowing.H3627H4390H559H1121H5066H3627H559H3627H8081H59757She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your children can live on the rest."H935H5046H376H430H559H3212H4376H8081H7999H5386H2421H1121H3498

Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son

8One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.H3117H477H5674H7766H1419H802H2388H398H3899H1767H5674H5493H398H38999She said to her husband, "Look, I am sure that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God.H559H376H3045H6918H376H430H5674H854810Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that he can stay there whenever he comes to us."H6213H6996H5944H7023H7760H4296H7979H3678H4501H935H549311One day when he came there, he went up to the chamber and lay down there.H3117H935H5493H5944H790112He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite woman." When he had called her, she stood before him.H559H1522H5288H7121H7767H7121H5975H644013He said to him, "Say to her, Since you have taken all this trouble for us, what may be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?" She answered, "I live among my own people."H559H559H2729H2731H6213H3426H1696H4428H8269H6635H559H3427H8432H597114He said, "What then may be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."H559H6213H1522H559H61H1121H376H220415He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood at the door.H559H7121H7121H5975H660716He said, "At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son." She replied, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant."H559H4150H6256H2416H2263H1121H559H113H376H430H3576H819817The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared to her.H802H2029H3205H1121H4150H477H1696H6256H241618When the child was older, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.H3206H1431H3117H3318H1H711419He complained to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."H559H1H7218H7218H559H5288H5375H51720He carried him and brought him to his mother; the child sat on her lap until noon, and he died.H5375H935H517H3427H1290H6672H419121She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door on him, and left.H5927H7901H4296H376H430H5462H331822Then she called to her husband, and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again."H7121H376H559H7971H259H5288H259H860H7323H376H430H772523He said, "Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." She said, "It will be all right."H559H1980H3117H2320H7676H559H796524Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Urge the animal on; do not hold back for me unless I tell you."H2280H860H559H5288H5090H3212H6113H7392H55925So she set out, and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman;H3212H935H376H430H2022H3760H376H430H7200H559H1522H5288H1975H776726run at once to meet her, and say to her, Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is the child all right?" She answered, "It is all right."H7323H7125H559H7965H7965H376H7965H3206H559H796527When she came to the man of God at the mountain, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi approached to push her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for she is in bitter distress; the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."H935H376H430H2022H2388H7272H1522H5066H1920H376H430H559H7503H5315H4843H3068H5956H504628Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, Do not mislead me?"H559H7592H1121H113H559H795229He said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, give no greeting, and if anyone greets you, do not answer; and lay my staff on the face of the child."H559H1522H2296H4975H3947H4938H3027H3212H4672H376H1288H376H1288H6030H7760H4938H6440H528830Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave without you." So he rose up and followed her.H517H5288H559H3068H2416H5315H2416H5800H6965H3212H31031Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. He came back to meet him and told him, "The child has not awakened."H1522H5674H6440H7760H4938H6440H5288H6963H7182H7725H7125H5046H559H5288H697432When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.H477H935H1004H5288H4191H7901H429633So he went in and closed the door on the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.H935H5462H1817H8147H6419H306834Then he got up on the bed and lay upon the child, putting his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and while he lay bent over him, the flesh of the child became warm.H5927H7901H3206H7760H6310H6310H5869H5869H3709H3709H1457H1320H3206H255235He got down, walked once to and fro in the room, then got up again and bent over him; the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.H7725H3212H1004H259H2008H259H2008H5927H1457H5288H2237H7651H6471H5288H6491H586936Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite woman." So he called her. When she came to him, he said, "Take your son."H7121H1522H559H7121H7767H7121H935H559H5375H112137She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground; then she took her son and left.H935H5307H7272H7812H776H5375H1121H3318

Elisha Purifies the Pot of Stew

38When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets."H477H7725H1537H7458H776H1121H5030H3427H6440H559H5288H8239H1419H5518H1310H5138H1121H503039One of them went out into the field to gather herbs; he found a wild vine and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.H259H3318H7704H3950H219H4672H7704H1612H3950H7704H6498H899H4393H935H6398H5518H5138H304540They served some for the men to eat. But while they were eating the stew, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" They could not eat it.H3332H582H398H398H5138H6817H559H376H430H4194H5518H3201H39841He said, "Then bring some flour." He threw it into the pot, and said, "Serve the people and let them eat." And there was nothing harmful in the pot.H559H3947H7058H7993H5518H559H3332H5971H398H1697H7451H5518

Elisha Feeds One Hundred Men

42A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, "Give it to the people and let them eat."H935H376H1190H935H376H430H3899H1061H6242H3899H8184H3759H6861H559H5414H5971H39843But his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred people?" So he repeated, "Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and have some left.'"H8334H559H5414H6440H3967H376H559H5414H5971H398H559H3068H398H349844He set it before them, they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the LORD.H5414H6440H398H3498H1697H3068

2Kings 5

The Healing of Naaman

5Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy.H5283H8269H6635H4428H758H1419H376H6440H113H5375H3068H5414H8668H758H1368H376H2428H68792Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman's wife.H758H3318H1416H7617H776H3478H6996H5291H6440H5283H8023She said to her mistress, "If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy."H559H1404H305H113H6440H5030H8111H227H622H68834So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said.H935H5046H113H559H1696H5291H776H34785And the king of Aram said, "Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel." He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments.H4428H758H559H3212H935H7971H5612H4428H3478H3212H3947H3027H6235H3603H3701H8337H505H2091H6235H2487H8996He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy."H935H5612H4428H3478H559H5612H935H7971H5283H5650H622H68837When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me."H4428H3478H7121H5612H7167H899H559H430H4191H2421H2088H7971H622H376H6883H389H3045H7200H5798But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel."H477H376H430H8085H4428H3478H7167H899H7971H4428H559H7167H899H935H3045H3426H5030H34789So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha's house.H5283H935H5483H7393H5975H6607H1004H47710Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean."H477H7971H4397H559H1980H7364H3383H7651H6471H1320H7725H289111But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, "I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy!H5283H7107H3212H559H559H3318H3318H5975H7121H8034H3068H430H5130H3027H4725H622H687912Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?" He turned and went away in a rage.H71H549H6554H5104H1834H2896H4325H3478H7364H2891H6437H3212H253413But his servants approached and said to him, "Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, 'Wash, and be clean'?"H5650H5066H1696H559H1H5030H1696H1419H1697H6213H637H559H7364H289114So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.H3381H2881H7651H6471H3383H1697H376H430H1320H7725H1320H6996H5288H289115Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company; he came and stood before him and said, "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel; please accept a present from your servant."H7725H376H430H4264H935H5975H6440H559H3045H430H776H3478H3947H1293H565016But he said, "As the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will accept nothing!" He urged him to accept, but he refused.H559H3068H2416H6440H5975H3947H6484H3947H398517Then Naaman said, "If not, please let two mule-loads of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god except the LORD.H5283H559H5414H5650H6776H6505H4853H127H5650H6213H5930H2077H312H430H306818But may the LORD pardon your servant on one count: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I do bow down in the house of Rimmon, may the LORD pardon your servant on this one count."H1697H3068H5545H5650H113H935H1004H7417H7812H8172H3027H7812H1004H7417H7812H1004H7417H3068H5545H5650H1697

Gehazi’s Greed

19He said to him, "Go in peace." But when Naaman had gone from him a short distance,H559H3212H7965H3212H3530H77620Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "My master has let that Aramean Naaman off too lightly by not accepting from him what he offered. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something out of him."H1522H5288H477H376H430H559H113H2820H5283H761H3947H3027H935H3068H2416H7323H310H3947H397221So Gehazi went after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he jumped down from the chariot to meet him and said, "Is everything all right?"H1522H7291H310H5283H5283H7200H7323H310H5307H4818H7125H559H796522He replied, "Yes, but my master has sent me to say, 'Two members of a company of prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim; please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'"H559H7965H113H7971H559H935H2022H669H8147H5288H1121H5030H5414H3603H3701H8147H2487H89923Naaman said, "Please accept two talents." He urged him, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to two of his servants, who carried them in front of Gehazi.H5283H559H2974H3947H3603H6555H6696H8147H3603H3701H8147H2754H8147H2487H899H5414H8147H5288H5375H644024When he came to the citadel, he took the bags from them, and stored them inside; he dismissed the men, and they left.H935H6076H3947H3027H6485H1004H582H7971H321225He went in and stood before his master; and Elisha said to him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" He answered, "Your servant has not gone anywhere at all."H935H5975H113H477H559H370H1522H559H5650H1980H57526But he said to him, "Did I not go with you in spirit when someone left his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to accept money and to accept clothing, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?H559H1980H3820H376H2015H4818H7125H6256H3947H3701H3947H899H2132H3754H6629H1241H5650H819827Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you, and to your descendants forever." So he left his presence leprous, as white as snow.H6883H5283H1692H2233H5769H3318H6440H6879H7950