2 Kings 4

1Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Lev 25:39 · Lev 25:48 · 1Sam 22:2 · 1Ki 18:3 · 1Ki 20:35 · +23 more

2Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:12 · 2Ki 2:9 · 2Ki 6:26 · Matt 15:34 · John 6:5 · Acts 3:6 · +2 more

3Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.Cross-references: 2Ki 3:16 · 2Ki 13:18 · Ps 81:10 · John 2:7 · John 16:24

4Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:19 · 2Ki 4:32 · Isa 26:20 · Matt 6:6 · Mark 5:40 · Mark 6:37 · +5 more

5So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:15 · 2Ki 5:11 · Luke 1:45 · Heb 11:7

6When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.Cross-references: Josh 5:12 · 1Ki 17:14 · 2Ki 4:43 · 2Ki 13:19 · 2Chr 6:12 · Matt 9:29 · +5 more

7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”Cross-references: 1Ki 12:22 · Ps 37:21 · Rom 12:17 · Phil 4:8 · 1Thess 2:9 · 1Thess 4:12 · +1 more

8One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.Cross-references: Gen 19:3 · Josh 19:18 · Judg 19:20 · 1Sam 28:4 · 2Sam 19:32 · 1Ki 1:3 · +9 more

9She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.Cross-references: Deut 33:1 · 1Ki 13:1 · 1Ki 17:18 · 1Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 4:7 · Prov 31:10 · +7 more

10Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there.”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:19 · Isa 32:8 · Matt 10:41 · Matt 25:40 · Mark 9:41 · Luke 8:3 · +4 more

11One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there.

12He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:43 · 1Ki 19:3 · 2Ki 3:11 · 2Ki 4:29 · 2Ki 5:20 · 2Ki 8:4 · +1 more

13He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”Cross-references: Gen 14:24 · Ruth 1:1 · 2Sam 19:13 · 2Sam 19:32 · 1Ki 2:32 · 2Ki 3:15 · +14 more

14He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 17:17 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 25:21 · Gen 30:1 · Judg 13:2 · +3 more

15He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door.

16He said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”Cross-references: Gen 17:16 · Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 18:12 · 1Ki 17:18 · 1Ki 18:9 · +7 more

17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.Cross-references: Gen 21:1 · 1Sam 1:19 · Ps 113:9 · Luke 1:24 · Luke 1:36 · Heb 11:11

18When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.Cross-references: Ruth 2:4

19He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”Cross-references: Job 14:1 · Jer 4:19

20When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.Cross-references: Gen 22:2 · Gen 37:3 · Gen 37:5 · 1Ki 17:17 · Isa 49:15 · Isa 66:13 · +6 more

21She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:19 · 2Ki 4:7 · 2Ki 4:10 · 2Ki 4:32

22She 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 4:24 · 2Ki 4:26 · John 11:3 · Acts 9:38

23He said, “Why would you want to go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s all right.”Cross-references: Num 10:10 · Num 28:11 · 1Chr 23:31 · Isa 1:13

24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”Cross-references: Ex 4:20 · 1Sam 25:19 · 1Ki 13:13 · 1Ki 13:23

25So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, there is the Shunammite.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 18:42 · 2Ki 2:25 · Isa 35:2

26Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’” She answered, “It is well.”Cross-references: Gen 29:6 · Gen 37:14 · Lev 10:3 · 1Sam 3:18 · 1Sam 17:18 · 2Ki 4:23 · +5 more

27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”Cross-references: Gen 18:17 · 1Sam 1:10 · 2Sam 7:3 · 2Ki 4:25 · 2Ki 6:12 · Job 10:1 · +12 more

28Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”Cross-references: Gen 30:1 · 2Ki 4:16

29Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”Cross-references: Ex 4:17 · Ex 7:19 · Ex 14:16 · Josh 6:4 · 1Ki 18:46 · 2Ki 2:8 · +7 more

30The child’s mother said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So he arose, and followed her.Cross-references: Ex 33:12 · Ruth 1:16 · 2Ki 2:2 · 2Ki 2:4

31Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”Cross-references: 1Sam 14:37 · 1Sam 28:6 · 1Ki 18:26 · 1Ki 18:29 · Job 14:12 · Ezek 14:3 · +8 more

32When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:17 · Luke 8:52 · John 11:17

33He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:20 · 1Ki 18:26 · 2Ki 4:4 · 2Ki 5:11 · 2Ki 6:17 · 2Ki 6:20 · +5 more

34He 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. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:21 · Acts 20:10

35Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth, then went up and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:22 · 2Ki 8:1 · 2Ki 8:5 · 2Ki 13:21 · Luke 7:14 · Luke 8:55 · +2 more

36He called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite!” So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, “Take up your son.”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:23 · Luke 7:15 · Heb 11:35

37Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 2:15 · 2Ki 4:27 · Heb 11:35

38Elisha came again 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, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Deut 28:22 · Deut 28:38 · 1Sam 7:16 · 1Sam 19:20 · 2Sam 21:1 · +20 more

39One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them.Cross-references: Isa 5:4 · Jer 2:21 · Matt 15:13 · Heb 12:15

40So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.Cross-references: Ex 10:17 · Ex 15:23 · Deut 33:1 · 1Ki 17:18 · 2Ki 1:9 · 2Ki 1:11 · +3 more

41But he said, “Then bring meal.” He threw it into the pot; and he said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.Cross-references: Ex 15:25 · 2Ki 2:21 · 2Ki 5:10 · 2Ki 6:6 · John 9:6 · Acts 28:5 · +1 more

42A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”Cross-references: Ex 23:16 · Deut 8:8 · Deut 12:6 · Deut 26:2 · Deut 32:14 · 1Sam 9:4 · +12 more

43His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”Cross-references: Matt 14:16 · Matt 14:20 · Matt 15:33 · Matt 15:37 · Matt 16:8 · Mark 6:37 · +7 more

44So he set it before them and they ate and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.