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2 Kings - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- 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.
- 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.
- Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.
- 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.
- Now one day, when he had gone there, he went into the little room and took his rest there.
- And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.
- 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.
- 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.
- Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.
- 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.
- 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.
- Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.
- And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.
- 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.
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