[1] Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came
crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your
knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come
to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt. [2] Then Elisha
said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house?
And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil. [3]
Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great
number of them. [4] Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your
sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.
[5] So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they
took the vessels to her and she put oil into them. [6] And when all the
vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said,
There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped. [7] So she came to the
man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get
money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for
the needs of yourself and your sons. [8] Now there came a day when Elisha
went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who
made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he
went by, he went into her house for a meal. [9] And she said to her
husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after
day. [10] So let us make a little room on the wall; and put a bed there for
him, and a table and a seat and a light; so that when he comes to us, he
will be able to go in there. [11] Now one day, when he had gone there, he
went into the little room and took his rest there. [12] And he said to
Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice
she came before him. [13] And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have
taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have
any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she
said, I am living among my people. [14] So he said, What then is to be done
for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and
her husband is old. [15] Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his
voice she took her place at the door. [16] And Elisha said, At this time in
the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my
lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant. [17] Then the
woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the
year after, as Elisha had said to her. [18] Now one day, when the child was
older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut. [19] And
he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant,
Take him in to his mother. [20] And he took him in to his mother, and she
took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when
his life went from him. [21] Then she went up and put him on the bed of the
man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out. [22] And she said to
her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may
go quickly to the man of God and come back again. [23] And he said, Why are
you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It
is well. [24] Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep
driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me. [25] So she went,
and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw
her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is
the Shunammite; [26] Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are
you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in
answer, All is well. [27] And when she came to where the man of God was on
the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the
purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her
soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not
given me word of it. [28] Then she said, Did I make a request to my lord
for a son? did I not say, Do not give me false words? [29] Then he said to
Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you
come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives
you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.
[30] But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your
soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with
her. [31] And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's
face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back,
and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake. [32] And
when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his
bed. [33] So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made
prayer to the Lord. [34] Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out
on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes
and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm. [35] Then he
came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up,
stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes
became open. [36] And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the
Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your
son. [37] And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his
feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out. [38] And Elisha went
back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of
the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the
great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets. [39] And
one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the
field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full,
he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having
no idea what it was. [40] Then they gave the men soup from the pot. And
while they were drinking the soup, they gave a cry, and said, O man of God,
there is death in the pot; and they were not able to take any more food.
[41] But he said, Get some meal. And he put it into the pot, and said, Now
give it to the people so that they may have food. And there was nothing bad
in the pot. [42] Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of
first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in
his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food. [43] But his
servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give
it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them
and some over. [44] So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there
was more than enough, as the Lord had said.

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