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2 Kings - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.
- And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid has not anything at all in the house but a pot of oil.
- And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels abroad from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; let it not be few;
- and go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and set aside what is full.
- And she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons: they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out.
- And it came to pass when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said to her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
- And she came and told the man of God; and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons on the rest.
- And it came to pass on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a wealthy woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
- And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.
- Let us make, I pray thee, a small upper chamber with walls, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand; and it shall be when he cometh to us, he shall turn in thither.
- And it came to pass on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the upper chamber, and lay there.
- And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And he called her, and she stood before him.
- And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she said, I dwell among mine own people.
- And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi said, Verily, she has no son, and her husband is old.
- And he said, Call her; and he called her; and she stood in the doorway.
- And he said, At this appointed time, when thy term is come, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.
- And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that appointed time in the next year as Elisha had said to her.
- And the child grew, and it came to pass one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
- And he said to his father, My head, my head! And he said to the servant, Carry him to his mother.
- And he carried him, and brought him to his mother; and he sat on her knees till noon, and died.
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