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4Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."H6817H259H802H802H1121H5030H477H559H5650H376H4191H3045H5650H3373H3068H5383H935H3947H8147H3206H56502And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil."H477H559H6213H5046H3426H1004H559H8198H1004H610H80813Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, [even] empty vessels; do not get a few.H559H3212H7592H3627H2351H7934H7386H3627H45914"And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels; and you shall set aside what is full."H935H5462H1817H1121H3332H3627H5265H43925So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing [the vessels] to her and she poured.H3212H5462H1817H1157H1121H1992H5066H33326And it came about when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not one vessel more." And the oil stopped.H3627H4390H559H1121H5066H3627H559H3627H8081H59757Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you [and] your sons can live on the rest."H935H5046H376H430H559H3212H4376H8081H7999H5386H2421H1121H34988Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food.H3117H477H5674H7766H1419H802H2388H398H3899H1767H5674H5493H398H38999And she said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually.H559H376H3045H6918H376H430H5674H854810"Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, [that] he can turn in there."H6213H6996H5944H7023H7760H4296H7979H3678H4501H935H549311One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested.H3117H935H5493H5944H790112Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And when he had called her, she stood before him.H559H1522H5288H7121H7767H7121H5975H644013And he said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people."H559H559H2729H2731H6213H3426H1696H4428H8269H6635H559H3427H8432H597114So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, " Truly she has no son and her husband is old. "H559H6213H1522H559H61H1121H376H220415And he said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.H559H7121H7121H5975H660716Then he said, "At this season next year you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant."H559H4150H6256H2416H2263H1121H559H113H376H430H3576H819817And the woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.H802H2029H3205H1121H4150H477H1696H6256H241618When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.H3206H1431H3117H3318H1H711419And he said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."H559H1H7218H7218H559H5288H5375H51720When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and [then] died.H5375H935H517H3427H1290H6672H419121And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] behind him, and went out.H5927H7901H4296H376H430H5462H331822Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return."H7121H376H559H7971H259H5288H259H860H7323H376H430H772523And he said, "Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." And she said, "[It will be] well."H559H1980H3117H2320H7676H559H796524Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, "Drive and go forward; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you."H2280H860H559H5288H5090H3212H6113H7392H55925So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. And it came about when the man of God saw her at a distance, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, yonder is the Shunammite.H3212H935H376H430H2022H3760H376H430H7200H559H1522H5288H1975H776726"Please run now to meet her and say to her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" And she answered, " It is well. "H7323H7125H559H7965H7965H376H7965H3206H559H796527When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."H935H376H430H2022H2388H7272H1522H5066H1920H376H430H559H7503H5315H4843H3068H5956H504628Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from 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 your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lad's face."H559H1522H2296H4975H3947H4938H3027H3212H4672H376H1288H376H1288H6030H7760H4938H6440H528830And the mother of the lad said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." And he arose and followed her.H517H5288H559H3068H2416H5315H2416H5800H6965H3212H31031Then Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the lad's face, but there was neither sound nor response. So he returned to meet him and told him, "The lad has not awakened."H1522H5674H6440H7760H4938H6440H5288H6963H7182H7725H7125H5046H559H5288H697432When Elisha came into the house, behold the lad was dead and laid on his bed.H477H935H1004H5288H4191H7901H429633So he entered and shut the door behind them both, and prayed to the LORD.H935H5462H1817H8147H6419H306834And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.H5927H7901H3206H7760H6310H6310H5869H5869H3709H3709H1457H1320H3206H255235Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the lad sneezed seven times and the lad opened his eyes.H7725H3212H1004H259H2008H259H2008H5927H1457H5288H2237H7651H6471H5288H6491H586936And he called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, "Take up your son."H7121H1522H559H7121H7767H7121H935H559H5375H112137Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out.H935H5307H7272H7812H776H5375H1121H331838When Elisha returned to Gilgal, [there was] a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, " Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. "H477H7725H1537H7458H776H1121H5030H3427H6440H559H5288H8239H1419H5518H1310H5138H1121H503039Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know [what they were.]H259H3318H7704H3950H219H4672H7704H1612H3950H7704H6498H899H4393H935H6398H5518H5138H304540So they poured [it] out for the men to eat. And it came about as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out and said, "O man of God, there is death in the pot." And they were unable to eat.H3332H582H398H398H5138H6817H559H376H430H4194H5518H3201H39841But he said, "Now bring meal." And he threw it into the pot, and he said, "Pour [it] out for the people that they may eat." Then there was no harm in the pot.H559H3947H7058H7993H5518H559H3332H5971H398H1697H7451H551842Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, "Give [them] to the people that they may eat."H935H376H1190H935H376H430H3899H1061H6242H3899H8184H3759H6861H559H5414H5971H39843And his attendant said, "What, shall I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give [them] to the people that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and have [some] left over.'"H8334H559H5414H6440H3967H376H559H5414H5971H398H559H3068H398H349844So he set [it] before them, and they ate and had [some] left over, according to the word of the LORD.H5414H6440H398H3498H1697H3068
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