2Kings 4:44 - Prayer Tents

The Widow’s Oil Multiplied

4One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves."H6817H259H802H802H1121H5030H477H559H5650H376H4191H3045H5650H3373H3068H5383H935H3947H8147H3206H5650

2Elisha asked her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil."H477H559H6213H5046H3426H1004H559H8198H1004H610H8081

3Then he said, "Go and borrow empty containers from everyone— from all your neighbors. Do not get just a few.H559H3212H7592H3627H2351H7934H7386H3627H4591

4Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these containers. Set the full ones to one side."H935H5462H1817H1121H3332H3627H5265H4392

5So she left. After she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing her [containers], and she kept pouring.H3212H5462H1817H1157H1121H1992H5066H3332

6When they were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container." But he replied, "There aren't any more." Then the oil stopped.H3627H4390H559H1121H5066H3627H559H3627H8081H5975

7She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go sell the oil and pay your debt; you and your sons can live on the rest."H935H5046H376H430H559H3212H4376H8081H7999H5386H2421H1121H3498

The Shunammite Woman’s Hospitality

8One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who [lived] there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.H3117H477H5674H7766H1419H802H2388H398H3899H1767H5674H5493H398H3899

9Then she said to her husband, "I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,H559H376H3045H6918H376H430H5674H8548

10so let's make a small room upstairs and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp there for him. Whenever he comes, he can stay there."H6213H6996H5944H7023H7760H4296H7979H3678H4501H935H5493

The Shunammite Woman’s Son

11One day he came there and stopped and went to the room upstairs to lie down.H3117H935H5493H5944H7901

12He ordered his attendant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called her and she stood before him.H559H1522H5288H7121H7767H7121H5975H6440

13Then he said to Gehazi, "Say to her, 'Look, you've gone to all this trouble for us. What can [we] do for you? Can [we] speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?' " She answered, "I am living among my own people."H559H559H2729H2731H6213H3426H1696H4428H8269H6635H559H3427H8432H5971

14So he asked, "Then what should be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."H559H6213H1522H559H61H1121H376H2204

15"Call her," Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.H559H7121H7121H5975H6607

16Elisha said, "At this time next year you will have a son in your arms." Then she said, "No, my lord. Man of God, do not deceive your servant."H559H4150H6256H2416H2263H1121H559H113H376H430H3576H8198

17The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.H802H2029H3205H1121H4150H477H1696H6256H2416

The Shunammite’s Son Raised

18The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.H3206H1431H3117H3318H1H7114

19[Suddenly], he complained to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told his servant, "Carry him to his mother."H559H1H7218H7218H559H5288H5375H517

20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.H5375H935H517H3427H1290H6672H4191

21Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.H5927H7901H4296H376H430H5462H3318

22She summoned her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and then come back."H7121H376H559H7971H259H5288H259H860H7323H376H430H7725

23But he said, "Why go to him today? It's neither New Moon or Sabbath." She replied, "Everything is all right."H559H1980H3117H2320H7676H559H7965

24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Hurry, don't slow the pace for me unless I tell you."H2280H860H559H5288H5090H3212H6113H7392H559

25So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi, "Look, there's the Shunammite woman.H3212H935H376H430H2022H3760H376H430H7200H559H1522H5288H1975H7767

26Run out to meet her and ask, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your son all right?' " And she answered, "Everything's all right."H7323H7125H559H7965H7965H376H7965H3206H559H7965

27When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone— she is in severe anguish, and the LORD has hidden it from me. He hasn't told me."H935H376H430H2022H2388H7272H1522H5066H1920H376H430H559H7503H5315H4843H3068H5956H5046

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

29So Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tuck your mantle under your belt, take my staff with you, and go. If you meet anyone, don't [stop to] greet him, and if a man greets you, don't answer him. Then place my staff on the boy's face."H559H1522H2296H4975H3947H4938H3027H3212H4672H376H1288H376H1288H6030H7760H4938H6440H5288

30The boy's mother said [to Elisha], "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he got up and followed her.H517H5288H559H3068H2416H5315H2416H5800H6965H3212H310

31Gehazi went ahead of them and placed the staff on the boy's face, but there was no sound or sign of life, so he went back to meet Elisha and told him, "The boy didn't wake up."H1522H5674H6440H7760H4938H6440H5288H6963H7182H7725H7125H5046H559H5288H6974

32When Elisha got to the house, he discovered the boy lying dead on his bed.H477H935H1004H5288H4191H7901H4296

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

34Then he went up and lay on the boy: he put mouth to mouth, eye to eye, hand to hand. While he bent down over him, the boy's flesh became warm.H5927H7901H3206H7760H6310H6310H5869H5869H3709H3709H1457H1320H3206H2552

35Elisha got up, went into the house, and paced back and forth. Then he went up and bent down over him again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.H7725H3212H1004H259H2008H259H2008H5927H1457H5288H2237H7651H6471H5288H6491H5869

36Elisha called Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite woman." He called her and she came. Then Elisha said, "Pick up your son."H7121H1522H559H7121H7767H7121H935H559H5375H1121

37She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground; she picked up her son and left.H935H5307H7272H7812H776H5375H1121H3318

The Deadly Stew

38When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet. He said to his attendant, "Put on the large pot and make stew for the sons of the prophets."H477H7725H1537H7458H776H1121H5030H3427H6440H559H5288H8239H1419H5518H1310H5138H1121H5030

39One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware [of what they were].H259H3318H7704H3950H219H4672H7704H1612H3950H7704H6498H899H4393H935H6398H5518H5138H3045

40They served some for the men to eat, but when they ate the stew they cried out, "There's death in the pot, man of God!" And they were unable to eat it.H3332H582H398H398H5138H6817H559H376H430H4194H5518H3201H398

41Then Elisha said, "Get some meal." He threw it into the pot and said, "Serve it for the people to eat." And there was nothing bad in the pot.H559H3947H7058H7993H5518H559H3332H5971H398H1697H7451H5518

The Multiplied Bread

42A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with his sack full of 20 loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, "Give it to the people to eat."H935H376H1190H935H376H430H3899H1061H6242H3899H8184H3759H6861H559H5414H5971H398

43But Elisha's attendant asked, "What? Am I to set 20 loaves before 100 men?" "Give it to the people to eat," Elisha said, "for this is what the LORD says: 'They will eat, and they will have some left over.'"H8334H559H5414H6440H3967H376H559H5414H5971H398H559H3068H398H3498

44So he gave it to them, and as the LORD had promised, they ate and had some left over.H5414H6440H398H3498H1697H3068