2Kings:4

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* A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha , saying , "Your servant my husband is dead , and you know that your servant feared the LORD . And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves ." * So 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 but a jar of oil ." * Then he said , "Go , borrow vessels from everywhere , from all your neighbors--empty vessels ; do not gather just a few . * And when you have come in , you shall shut the door behind you and your sons ; then pour it into all those vessels , and set aside the full ones ." * So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons , who brought the vessels to her ; and she poured it out . * Now it came to pass , when the vessels were full , that she said to her son , "Bring me another vessel ." And he said to her , "There is not another vessel ." So the oil ceased . * Then she came and told the man of God . And he said , "Go , sell the oil and pay your debt ; and you and your sons live on the rest ." * Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem , where there was a notable woman , and she persuaded him to eat some food . So it was , as often as he passed by , he would turn in there to eat some food . * And she said to her husband , "Look now , I know that this is a holy man of God , who passes by us regularly . * Please , let us make a small upper room on the wall ; and let us put a bed for him there , and a table and a chair and a lampstand ; so it will be , whenever he comes to us , he can turn in there ." * And it happened one day that he came there , and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there . * Then he said to Gehazi his servant , "Call this Shunammite woman ." When he had called her , she stood before him . * And he said to him , "Say now to her , "Look , you have been concerned for us with all this care . What can I do for you ? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army ?"' She answered , "I dwell among my own people ." * So he said , "What then is to be done for her ?" And Gehazi answered , "Actually , she has no son , and her husband is old ." * So he said , "Call her ." When he had called her , she stood in the doorway . * Then he said , "About this time next year you shall embrace a son ." And she said , "No , my lord . Man of God , do not lie to your maidservant !" * But the woman conceived , and bore a son when the appointed time had come , of which Elisha had told her . * And the child grew . Now it happened one day that he went out to his father , to the reapers . * And he said to his father , "My head , my head !" So he said to a servant , "Carry him to his mother ." * When he had taken him and brought him to his mother , he sat on her knees till noon , and then died . * And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God , shut the door upon him , and went out . * Then she called to her husband , and said , "Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys , that I may run to the man of God and come back ." * So he said , "Why are you going to him today ? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath ." And she said , "It is well ." * Then she saddled a donkey , and said to her servant , "Drive , and go forward ; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you ." * And so she departed , and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel . So it was , when the man of God saw her afar off , that he said to his servant Gehazi , "Look , the Shunammite woman ! * 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 ." * Now when she came to the man of God at the hill , she caught him by the feet , but Gehazi came near to push her away . But the man of God said , "Let her alone ; for her soul is in deep distress , and the LORD has hidden it from me , and has not told me ." * So she said , "Did I ask a son of my lord ? Did I not say , "Do not deceive me '?" * Then he said to Gehazi , "Get yourself ready , and take my staff in your hand , and be on your way . If you meet anyone , do not greet him ; and if anyone greets you , do not answer him ; but lay my staff on the face of the child ." * And the mother of the child said , "As the LORD lives , and as your soul lives , I will not leave you ." So he arose and followed her . * Now Gehazi went on ahead of them , and laid the staff on the face of the child ; but there was neither voice nor hearing . Therefore he went back to meet him , and told him , saying , "The child has not awakened ." * When Elisha came into the house , there was the child , lying dead on his bed . * He went in therefore , shut the door behind the two of them , and prayed to the LORD . * And he went up and lay on the child , and put his mouth on his mouth , his eyes on his eyes , and his hands on his hands ; and he stretched himself out on the child , and the flesh of the child became warm . * He returned and walked back and forth in the house , and again went up and stretched himself out on him ; then the child sneezed seven times , and the child opened his eyes . * And he called Gehazi and said , "Call this Shunammite woman ." So he called her . And when she came in to him , he said , "Pick up your son ." * So she went in , fell at his feet , and bowed to the ground ; then she picked up her son and went out . * And Elisha returned to Gilgal , and there was a famine in the land . Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him ; and he said to his servant , "Put on the large pot , and boil stew for the sons of the prophets ." * So one went out into the field to gather herbs , and found a wild vine , and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds , and came and sliced them into the pot of stew , though they did not know what they were . * Then they served it to the men to eat . Now it happened , as they were eating the stew , that they cried out and said , "Man of God , there is death in the pot !" And they could not eat it . * So he said , "Then bring some flour ." And he put it into the pot , and said , "Serve it to the people , that they may eat ." And there was nothing harmful in the pot . * Then a man came from Baal Shalisha , and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits , twenty loaves of barley bread , and newly ripened grain in his knapsack . And he said , "Give it to the people , that they may eat ." * But his servant said , "What ? Shall I set this before one hundred men ?" He said again , "Give it to the people , that they may eat ; for thus says the LORD : "They shall eat and have some left over ."' * So he set it before them ; and they ate and had some left over , according to the word of the LORD .

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