4NOW THE wife of a son of the prophets cried to Elisha, Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. But the creditor has come to take my two sons to be his slaves.H6817H259H802H802H1121H5030H477H559H5650H376H4191H3045H5650H3373H3068H5383H935H3947H8147H3206H56502Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you [of sale value] in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.H477H559H6213H5046H3426H1004H559H8198H1004H610H80813Then he said, Go around and borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels--and not a few.H559H3212H7592H3627H2351H7934H7386H3627H45914And when you come in, shut the door upon you and your sons. Then pour out [the oil you have] into all those vessels, setting aside each one when it is full.H935H5462H1817H1121H3332H3627H5265H43925So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her sons, who brought to her the vessels as she poured the oil.H3212H5462H1817H1157H1121H1992H5066H33326When the vessels were all full, she said to her son, Bring me another vessel. And he said to her, There is not a one left. Then the oil stopped multiplying.H3627H4390H559H1121H5066H3627H559H3627H8081H59757Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons live on the rest.H935H5046H376H430H559H3212H4376H8081H7999H5386H2421H1121H34988One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a rich and influential woman lived, who insisted on his eating a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.H3117H477H5674H7766H1419H802H2388H398H3899H1767H5674H5493H398H38999And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by continually.H559H376H3045H6918H376H430H5674H854810Let us make a small chamber on the [housetop] and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then whenever he comes to us, he can go [up the outside stairs and rest] here.H6213H6996H5944H7023H7760H4296H7979H3678H4501H935H549311One day he came and turned into the chamber and lay there.H3117H935H5493H5944H790112And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.H559H1522H5288H7121H7767H7121H5975H644013And he said to Gehazi, Say now to her, You have been most painstakingly {and} reverently concerned for us; what is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army? She answered, I dwell among my own people [they are sufficient].H559H559H2729H2731H6213H3426H1696H4428H8269H6635H559H3427H8432H597114Later Elisha said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, She has no child and her husband is old.H559H6213H1522H559H61H1121H376H220415He said, Call her. [Gehazi] called her, and she stood in the doorway.H559H7121H7121H5975H660716Elisha said, At this season when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.H559H4150H6256H2416H2263H1121H559H113H376H430H3576H819817But the woman conceived and bore a son at that season the following year, as Elisha had said to her.H802H2029H3205H1121H4150H477H1696H6256H241618When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father with the reapers.H3206H1431H3117H3318H1H711419But he said to his father, My head, my head! The man said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.H559H1H7218H7218H559H5288H5375H51720And when he was brought to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.H5375H935H517H3427H1290H6672H419121And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him and went out.H5927H7901H4296H376H430H5462H331822And she called to her husband and said, Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.H7121H376H559H7971H259H5288H259H860H7323H376H430H772523And he said, Why go to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath. And she said, It will be all right.H559H1980H3117H2320H7676H559H796524Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, Ride fast; do not slacken your pace 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 afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.H3212H935H376H430H2022H3760H376H430H7200H559H1522H5288H1975H776726Run to meet her and say, Is it well with you? Well with your husband? Well with the child? And she answered, It is well.H7323H7125H559H7965H7965H376H7965H3206H559H796527When she came to the mountain to the man of God, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to thrust her away, but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is bitter {and} vexed within her, and the Lord has hid it from me and has not told me.H935H376H430H2022H2388H7272H1522H5066H1920H376H430H559H7503H5315H4843H3068H5956H504628Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?H559H7592H1121H113H559H795229Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go lay my staff on the face of the child. If you meet any man, do not salute him. If he salutes you, do not answer him.H559H1522H2296H4975H3947H4938H3027H3212H4672H376H1288H376H1288H6030H7760H4938H6440H528830The mother of the child said, As the Lord lives and as my soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose and followed her.H517H5288H559H3068H2416H5315H2416H5800H6965H3212H31031Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the child's face, but the boy neither spoke nor heard. So he went back to meet Elisha and said to him, The child has not awakened.H1522H5674H6440H7760H4938H6440H5288H6963H7182H7725H7125H5046H559H5288H697432When Elisha arrived in the house, the child was dead and laid upon his bed.H477H935H1004H5288H4191H7901H429633So he went in, shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.H935H5462H1817H8147H6419H306834He went up and lay on the child, put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself on him {and} embraced him, the child's flesh became warm.H5927H7901H3206H7760H6310H6310H5869H5869H3709H3709H1457H1320H3206H255235Then he returned and walked in the house to and fro and went up again and stretched himself upon him. And the child sneezed seven times, and then opened his eyes.H7725H3212H1004H259H2008H259H2008H5927H1457H5288H2237H7651H6471H5288H6491H586936Then [Elisha] called Gehazi and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came, he said, Take up your son.H7121H1522H559H7121H7767H7121H935H559H5375H112137She came and fell at his feet, bowing herself to the ground. Then she took up her son and went out.H935H5307H7272H7812H776H5375H1121H331838Elisha came back to Gilgal during a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, Set on the big pot and cook pottage for the sons of the prophets.H477H7725H1537H7458H776H1121H5030H3427H6440H559H5288H8239H1419H5518H1310H5138H1121H503039Then one went into the field to gather herbs and gathered from a wild vine his lap full of wild gourds, and returned and cut them up into the pot of pottage, for they were unknown to them.H259H3318H7704H3950H219H4672H7704H1612H3950H7704H6498H899H4393H935H6398H5518H5138H304540So they poured it out for the men to eat. But as they ate of the pottage, they cried out, O man of God, there is death in the pot! And they could not eat it.H3332H582H398H398H5138H6817H559H376H430H4194H5518H3201H39841But he said, Bring meal [as a symbol of God's healing power]. And he cast it into the pot and said, Pour it out for the people that they may eat. Then there was no harm in the pot.H559H3947H7058H7993H5518H559H3332H5971H398H1697H7451H551842[At another time] a man from Baal-shalisha came and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain [in the husk] in his sack. And Elisha said, Give to the men that they may eat.H935H376H1190H935H376H430H3899H1061H6242H3899H8184H3759H6861H559H5414H5971H39843His servant said, How am I to set [only] this before a hundred [hungry] men? He said, Give to the men that they may eat. For thus says the Lord: They shall be fed and have some left.H8334H559H5414H6440H3967H376H559H5414H5971H398H559H3068H398H349844So he set it before them, and they ate and left some, as the Lord had said.H5414H6440H398H3498H1697H3068
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