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Tell me, what do you have in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Then he said, Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, <i>even</i> empty vessels; do not get a few. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing <i>the vessels</i> to her and she poured. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>When the vessels were full, she said to her son, Bring me another vessel. And he said to her, There is not one vessel more. And the oil stopped. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you <i>and</i> your sons can live on the rest.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Shunammite Woman</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>She said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, <i>that</i> he can turn in there.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army? And she answered, I live among my own people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no son and her husband is old. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Then he said, At this season next year you will embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Shunammites Son</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>He said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to his servant, Carry him to his mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and <i>then</i> died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut <i>the door</i> behind him and went out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Then she called to her husband and said, Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>He said, Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, <i>It will be</i> well. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, Drive and go forward; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel.<br>      When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, there is the Shunammite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has hidden it from me and has not told me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then she said, Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lads face. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>The mother of the lad said, As the L<font size="1">ORD</font> lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. And he arose and followed her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Then Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the lads face, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and told him, The lad has not awakened.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>When Elisha came into the house, behold the lad was dead and laid on his bed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the lad sneezed seven times and the lad opened his eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>He called Gehazi and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up your son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Poisonous Stew</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>When Elisha returned to Gilgal, <i>there was</i> a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know <i>what they were.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>So they poured <i>it</i> out for the men to eat. And as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they were unable to eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>But he said, Now bring meal. He threw it into the pot and said, Pour <i>it</i> out for the people that they may eat. Then there was no harm in the pot.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give <i>them</i> to the people that they may eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/4-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>His attendant said, What, will I set this before a hundred men? 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