The Widow’s Oil Multiplied
2Elisha asked her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?”
She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”4:2 1Kg 17:12
3Then he said, “Go out and borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Do not get just a few.4:3 2Kg 3:16
4Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these containers. Set the full ones to one side.”
5So she left.
After she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing her containers, and she kept pouring.4:5 Mt 14:17–21
6When they were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”
But he replied, “There aren’t any more.” Then the oil stopped.
The Shunammite Woman’s Hospitality
8One day Elisha went to Shunem.4:8 Jos 19:18 A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.4:8 Mt 10:40–42; 3Jn 5–8
9Then she said to her husband, “I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,
The Shunammite Woman’s Son
11One day he came there and stopped at the upstairs room to lie down.
12He ordered his attendant Gehazi,4:12 2Kg 4:29–31; 5:20–27 “Call this Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she stood before him.
She answered, “I am living among my own people.”
14So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?”
Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15“Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
16Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.”4:16 Gn 18:9–14; Lk 1:7–13
Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your servant.”4:16 2Kg 4:28
17The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.
The Shunammite’s Son Raised
19Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head!”
His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.
21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.
22She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and come back again.”
24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Go fast; don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
25So she came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.4:25 1Kg 18:19–20
When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi,4:25 2Kg 4:12 “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman.4:25 2Kg 4:8,12
26Run out to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your son all right? ’”
And she answered, “It’s all right.”
27When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet.4:27 Mt 28:9 Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone — she is in severe anguish,4:27 Ru 1:19–21; 1Sm 1:15; Zch 12:10 and the Lord has hidden it from me. He hasn’t told me.”
34Then he went up and lay on the boy:4:34 1Kg 17:21–23 he put mouth to mouth, eye to eye, hand to hand. While he bent down over him, the boy’s flesh became warm.4:34 Ac 20:10
36Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” He called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
The Deadly Stew
39One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.4:39 of what they were added for clarity
The Multiplied Bread
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