1Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared Yehovah: and the creditor has come to take to him my two children to be slaves. 2And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? And she said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil. 3Then he said, Go, borrow vessels from outside, from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not borrow a few. 4And you shall go in, and shut the door upon you and upon your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full. 5So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out. 6And it happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me another vessel. And he said to her, There is not another vessel. And the oil stopped. 7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your sons live on the rest. 8And it happened one day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a great woman; and she urged him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. 9And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually. 10Please let us make a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there. 11And it happened one day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there. 12And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. 13And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people. 14And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no son, and her husband is old. 15And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. 16And he said, At this season, when the time comes around, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid. 17And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her. 18And when the child was grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19And he said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to his servant, Carry him to his mother. 20And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. 21And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. 22And 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 come again. 23And he said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well. 24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; do not slow down the riding for me, unless I tell you. 25So she went, and came to the man of God to mount Carmel. And it happened, when the man of God saw her at a distance, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, there is the Shunammite: 26please 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. 27And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is distressed within her; and Yehovah has hidden it from me, and has not told me. 28Then she said, Did I ask my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not deceive me? 29Then 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 upon the face of the child. 30And the mother of the child said, As Yehovah lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose, and followed her. 31And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child has not awakened. 32And when Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. 33He went in therefore, and shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to Yehovah. 34And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child grew warm. 35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she had come in to him, he said, Take up your son. 37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out. 38And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets. 39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it wild gourds, his lap full, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they did not know them. 40So they poured out for the men to eat. And it happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat of it. 41But he said, Then bring flour. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot. 42And 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 to the people, that they may eat. 43And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yehovah, They shall eat, and shall leave some over. 44So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some over, according to the word of Yehovah.