2Kings 4:44 - Prayer Tents

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."H6817H259H802H802H1121H5030H477H559H5650H376H4191H3045H5650H3373H3068H5383H935H3947H8147H3206H5650

2Elisha 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."H477H559H6213H5046H3426H1004H559H8198H1004H610H8081

3He said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not just a few.H559H3212H7592H3627H2351H7934H7386H3627H4591

4Then 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."H935H5462H1817H1121H3332H3627H5265H4392

5So she left him and shut the door behind her and her children; they kept bringing vessels to her, and she kept pouring.H3212H5462H1817H1157H1121H1992H5066H3332

6When 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.H3627H4390H559H1121H5066H3627H559H3627H8081H5975

7She 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.H3117H477H5674H7766H1419H802H2388H398H3899H1767H5674H5493H398H3899

9She said to her husband, "Look, I am sure that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God.H559H376H3045H6918H376H430H5674H8548

10Let 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."H6213H6996H5944H7023H7760H4296H7979H3678H4501H935H5493

11One day when he came there, he went up to the chamber and lay down there.H3117H935H5493H5944H7901

12He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite woman." When he had called her, she stood before him.H559H1522H5288H7121H7767H7121H5975H6440

13He 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."H559H559H2729H2731H6213H3426H1696H4428H8269H6635H559H3427H8432H5971

14He said, "What then may be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."H559H6213H1522H559H61H1121H376H2204

15He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood at the door.H559H7121H7121H5975H6607

16He 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."H559H4150H6256H2416H2263H1121H559H113H376H430H3576H8198

17The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared to her.H802H2029H3205H1121H4150H477H1696H6256H2416

18When the child was older, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.H3206H1431H3117H3318H1H7114

19He complained to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."H559H1H7218H7218H559H5288H5375H517

20He carried him and brought him to his mother; the child sat on her lap until noon, and he died.H5375H935H517H3427H1290H6672H4191

21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door on him, and left.H5927H7901H4296H376H430H5462H3318

22Then 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."H7121H376H559H7971H259H5288H259H860H7323H376H430H7725

23He said, "Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." She said, "It will be all right."H559H1980H3117H2320H7676H559H7965

24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Urge the animal on; do not hold back for me unless I tell you."H2280H860H559H5288H5090H3212H6113H7392H559

25So 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;H3212H935H376H430H2022H3760H376H430H7200H559H1522H5288H1975H7767

26run 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."H7323H7125H559H7965H7965H376H7965H3206H559H7965

27When 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."H935H376H430H2022H2388H7272H1522H5066H1920H376H430H559H7503H5315H4843H3068H5956H5046

28Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, Do not mislead me?"H559H7592H1121H113H559H7952

29He 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."H559H1522H2296H4975H3947H4938H3027H3212H4672H376H1288H376H1288H6030H7760H4938H6440H5288

30Then 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.H517H5288H559H3068H2416H5315H2416H5800H6965H3212H310

31Gehazi 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."H1522H5674H6440H7760H4938H6440H5288H6963H7182H7725H7125H5046H559H5288H6974

32When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.H477H935H1004H5288H4191H7901H4296

33So he went in and closed the door on the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.H935H5462H1817H8147H6419H3068

34Then 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.H5927H7901H3206H7760H6310H6310H5869H5869H3709H3709H1457H1320H3206H2552

35He 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.H7725H3212H1004H259H2008H259H2008H5927H1457H5288H2237H7651H6471H5288H6491H5869

36Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite woman." So he called her. When she came to him, he said, "Take your son."H7121H1522H559H7121H7767H7121H935H559H5375H1121

37She 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."H477H7725H1537H7458H776H1121H5030H3427H6440H559H5288H8239H1419H5518H1310H5138H1121H5030

39One 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.H259H3318H7704H3950H219H4672H7704H1612H3950H7704H6498H899H4393H935H6398H5518H5138H3045

40They 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.H3332H582H398H398H5138H6817H559H376H430H4194H5518H3201H398

41He 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."H935H376H1190H935H376H430H3899H1061H6242H3899H8184H3759H6861H559H5414H5971H398

43But 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.'"H8334H559H5414H6440H3967H376H559H5414H5971H398H559H3068H398H3498

44He set it before them, they ate, and had some left, according to the word of the LORD.H5414H6440H398H3498H1697H3068