1 ¶ Now a wife of one of the sons of the prophets called to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: but the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.

2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me, what do you have of value in the house? And she said, Your handmaid does not have anything in the house, except a pot of oil.

3 Then he said, Go, around and borrow empty jars from all your neighbors; do not just borrow a few.

4 And when you come in, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out oil into all those vessels, and when one is full set it aside.

5 So she left him, and shut the door behind herself and her sons, who brought the jars to her; as she poured the oil.

6 And when the jars were full, she said to her son, Bring me another jar. And he said to her, There are no more jars. Then the oil stopped flowing.

7 So she went and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live off the rest.

8 ¶ One day Elisha went over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

9 And she said to her husband, Look, I realize that this is an holy man of God, who comes by here regularly.

10 Let us build a small rooftop room, with walls; and put a bed, table, stool, and lamp in it: and when he comes to us, he can stay there.

11 Then one day he came there, and went into the chamber, and lay there.

12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood in front of him.

13 And he said to Gehazi, Say to her, You have gone to all this trouble for us; what can we do for you? can we speak on your behalf to the king, or to the commander of the army? And she answered, I live among my own people.

14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Well she has no child, and her husband is old.

15 And he said, Call her. And when he called her, she stood in the doorway.

16 And he said, At this time next year, you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, as a man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.

17 But the woman conceived, and gave birth to a son at that time the next year, as Elisha had promised her.

18 ¶ And when the child had grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father among the reapers.

19 And he said to his father, Oh my head, my head. And his father said to a servant, Carry him to his mother.

20 And when he had taken him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.

22 And she called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the young men, and one of the donkeys, so that I can hurry to the man of God, and come back.

23 And he said, Why go to him today? it is neither new moon, or sabbath. And she said, It will be all right.

24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Hurry, do not slow the pace for me, unless I tell you.

25 So she set out and went to the man of God at mount Carmel. And when the man of God saw her in the distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, Look, there is that Shunammite:

26 Run to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

27 And when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to push her away. But the man of God said, Let her alone; for her heart is anguished within her: and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.

28 Then she said, Did I ask my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

29 Then he said to Gehazi, Pull your robe up into your belt, and take my staff in your hand, and go: if you meet any man, do not greet him; and if any greet you, do not return the greeting: and lay my staff on the face of the child.

30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he got up, and followed her.

31 And Gehazi went on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, or hearing. Therefore he went back to meet Elisha, and said to him, The child is not awake.

32 And when Elisha got to the house, he found the child dead, and lying upon his bed.

33 So he went in, and shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

34 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 the child; and the flesh of the child grew warm.

35 Then he returned, and walked back and forth in the house; and went up, and stretched himself on the boy: and the child sneezed seven times, and opened his eyes.

36 And Elisha called Gehazi, and said, Call the Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up your son.

37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

38 ¶ When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said to his servant, Put on the large pot, and make stew for the sons of the prophets.

39 And one went out into the field to gather vegetables, and found a wild vine, from which he gathered his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew: for they did not know what they were.

40 Then they poured some out for the men to eat. But as they were eating the pottage, they cried out, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat it.

41 Then he said, Bring meal. And he threw it into the pot; and said, Pour it out for the people to eat. And there was nothing bad in the pot.

42 Another time a man from Baalshalisha, came and brought the man of God bread from the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give it to the men, so that they may eat.

43 But his attendant asked, How can I serve this to one hundred men? Elisha repeated, Give it to the men, so that they may eat: for the LORD says, They will eat, and have some left.

44 So he set it before them, and they all ate, and had some left, as the LORD had said.