4Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, "My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!"H6817H259H802H802H1121H5030H477H559H5650H376H4191H3045H5650H3373H3068H5383H935H3947H8147H3206H5650 2Elisha responded, "What shall I do for you?Tell me what you have in your house?" She replied, "Your servant has nothing in the entire house except for a flask of oil."H477H559H6213H5046H3426H1004H559H8198H1004H610H8081 3He told her, "Go out to all of your neighbors in the surrounding streets and borrow lots of pots from them. Don't get just a few empty vessels, either.H559H3212H7592H3627H2351H7934H7386H3627H4591 4Then go in and shut the door behind you, taking only your children, and pour oil into all of the pots. As each one is filled, set it aside."H935H5462H1817H1121H3332H3627H5265H4392 5So she left Elisha, shut the door behind her and her children, and while they kept on bringing vessels to her, she kept on pouring oil.H3212H5462H1817H1157H1121H1992H5066H3332 6When the last of the vessels had been filled, she told her son, "Bring me another pot!" But he replied, "There isn't even one pot left." Then the oil stopped flowing.H3627H4390H559H1121H5066H3627H559H3627H8081H5975 7After this, she went and told the man of God what had happened. So he said, "Go sell the oil, pay your debt, and you and your children will be able to live on the proceeds."H935H5046H376H430H559H3212H4376H8081H7999H5386H2421H1121H3498 8Some time later, Elisha went to Shunem, where he met a prominent and wealthy woman who persuaded him to have a meal with her. As a result, whenever he was in the area, he stopped by to eat with her.H3117H477H5674H7766H1419H802H2388H398H3899H1767H5674H5493H398H3899 9So she had a talk with her husband. "Look here! I've learned that this is a holy and godly man who comes by here on a regular basis.H559H376H3045H6918H376H430H5674H8548 10Now then, let's build a small upper room and put a bed in it for him there, along with a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. That way, when he comes to visit, he can rest there."H6213H6996H5944H7023H7760H4296H7979H3678H4501H935H5493 11One day Elisha came by to visit and stopped in to rest in the upper chamber.H3117H935H5493H5944H7901 12He told his attendant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite." So when he had summoned her, she stood in front of him.H559H1522H5288H7121H7767H7121H5975H6440 13Elisha told him, "Ask her, 'Look how you've gone to all this trouble to care for us! What can I do for you?Do you wish to be mentioned to the king or to the head of the army?" She replied, "I'm at home living among my own people."H559H559H2729H2731H6213H3426H1696H4428H8269H6635H559H3427H8432H5971 14He responded, "What, then, is to be done on her behalf?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son and her husband is growing old."H559H6213H1522H559H61H1121H376H2204 15"Call her," Elisha ordered. After he called her, she came and stood in the doorway,H559H7121H7121H5975H6607 16and he told her, "About this time next year you will be embracing a son." "No, sir! Please, as a godly man, don't mislead your servant!"H559H4150H6256H2416H2263H1121H559H113H376H430H3576H8198 17But the woman did conceive and did bear a son at that very same time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.H802H2029H3205H1121H4150H477H1696H6256H2416 18After the child had grown up a bit, one day he went out to visit his father, who was with the harvesters.H3206H1431H3117H3318H1H7114 19He told his father, "My head! My head!" So his father ordered his servant, "Carry him over to his mother!"H559H1H7218H7218H559H5288H5375H517 20So the servant carried him over to his mother, where he rested on her lap until mid-day, and then he died.H5375H935H517H3427H1290H6672H4191 21The woman went upstairs, laid him on the bed belonging to the man of God, and shut the door, leaving him behind as she left.H5927H7901H4296H376H430H5462H3318 22Then she called to her husband and asked him, "Please send me one of the servants, along with one of the donkeys, so I can ride quickly to see that godly man. I'll be right back."H7121H376H559H7971H259H5288H259H860H7323H376H430H7725 23He asked her, "What's the point of visiting him today?It's not a new moon, and it isn't the Sabbath!" But she kept saying, "Things will go well."H559H1980H3117H2320H7676H559H7965 24So she saddled a donkey and told her servant, "Forward, driver! Don't slow down on my account, unless I tell you!"H2280H860H559H5288H5090H3212H6113H7392H559 25So out she went and eventually she arrived at Mount Carmel to visit the man of God. When the man of God noticed her from a distance, he told his attendant Gehazi, "Look! There's the woman from Shunem!H3212H935H376H430H2022H3760H376H430H7200H559H1522H5288H1975H7767 26Please run out quickly and greet her. Ask her, 'Are things going well with you?Are things going well with your husband?Are things going well with your child?'" She answered Gehazi, "Things are going well."H7323H7125H559H7965H7965H376H7965H3206H559H7965 27As she came near the man of God on the mountain, she grabbed his feet. When Gehazi intervened to push her away, the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is deeply troubled! The Lord has concealed the thing from me, and hasn't informed me."H935H376H430H2022H2388H7272H1522H5066H1920H376H430H559H7503H5315H4843H3068H5956H5046 28Then she asked, "Did I ask my lord for a son?Didn't I beg you, 'Don't mislead me?'"H559H7592H1121H113H559H7952 29At this he said to Gehazi, "Get ready to run! Take my staff in your hand, and get on the road. Don't greet anyone you meet. If anyone greets you, don't respond. Just go lay my staff on the youngster's face."H559H1522H2296H4975H3947H4938H3027H3212H4672H376H1288H376H1288H6030H7760H4938H6440H5288 30At this the youngster's mother replied, "As long as you and the Lord live, I'm not leaving you!" So he got up and followed her.H517H5288H559H3068H2416H5315H2416H5800H6965H3212H310 31Meanwhile, Gehazi went on ahead of them and placed the staff on the youngster's face, but when there was no sound or reaction, he returned, met Elisha, and told him, "The youngster has shown no sign of awakening."H1522H5674H6440H7760H4938H6440H5288H6963H7182H7725H7125H5046H559H5288H6974 32When Elisha entered the house, there was the youngster, dead and laid out on Elisha's bed!H477H935H1004H5288H4191H7901H4296 33So he entered, shut the door behind them both, and prayed to the Lord.H935H5462H1817H8147H6419H3068 34Then he approached the child and lay down with his mouth near the child's, with his eyes near those of the child, and taking the child's hands in his. As Elisha stretched himself on the child, the child's flesh began to grow warm.H5927H7901H3206H7760H6310H6310H5869H5869H3709H3709H1457H1320H3206H2552 35Then he went downstairs, walked around back and forth inside the house once, went back up to his upper chamber, and stretched himself over the child again. The young man sneezed seven times and then opened his eyes.H7725H3212H1004H259H2008H259H2008H5927H1457H5288H2237H7651H6471H5288H6491H5869 36He called out to Gehazi, "Go get the Shunammite woman!" So he called her. 37When she came in to see Elisha, he told her, "Take back your son!"H7121H1522H559H7121H7767H7121H935H559H5375H1121 37Then she approached him, fell at his feet, bowing low to the ground, took back her son, and went out.H935H5307H7272H7812H776H5375H1121H3318 38Elisha returned to Gilgal during a time of famine in the land. While the Guild of Prophets were having a meal with him, he instructed his attendant, "Put a large pot on the fire and boil some stew for the Guild of Prophets."H477H7725H1537H7458H776H1121H5030H3427H6440H559H5288H8239H1419H5518H1310H5138H1121H5030 39Somebody went out into the fields to grab some herbs, found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds, which he came and sliced up into the stew pot, but nobody else knew.H259H3318H7704H3950H219H4672H7704H1612H3950H7704H6498H899H4393H935H6398H5518H5138H3045 40When they served the men, they began to eat the stew. But they cried out, "That pot of stew is deadly, you man of God!" So they couldn't eat the stew.H3332H582H398H398H5138H6817H559H376H430H4194H5518H3201H398 41But he replied, "Bring me some flour." He tossed it into the pot and said, "Serve the people so they can eat." Then there was nothing harmful in the pot.H559H3947H7058H7993H5518H559H3332H5971H398H1697H7451H5518 42Later on, a man arrived from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God some bread as a first fruit offering. He had 20 loaves of barley and ripe ears of corn in his sack. So Elisha said, "Give them to the people so they can eat." 4H935H376H1190H935H376H430H3899H1061H6242H3899H8184H3759H6861H559H5414H5971H398 43Elisha's attendant asked, "What?Will this serve 100 men?" But he replied, "Distribute it to the people so they can eat, because this is what the Lord says: 'They will eat and have a surplus!'"H8334H559H5414H6440H3967H376H559H5414H5971H398H559H3068H398H3498 44So he served them, and they ate and had some left over, just as the Lord had indicated.H5414H6440H398H3498H1697H3068
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