Elisha and the Shunammite Woman (2KI 4:8-17)

[4:8] One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.

[4:9] And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way.

[4:10] Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”

[4:11] One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.

[4:12] And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.

[4:13] And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

[4:14] And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

[4:15] He said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

[4:16] And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”

[4:17] But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.

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