2 Kings 4:8–17

Elisha at Shunem

⁸It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there was a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat. ⁹She said to her husband, “Please now, I know that he is a holy man of God who is passing our way^b regularly; ¹⁰let us make a small enclosed room upstairs and put a bed, table, chair, and lampstand there for him, so that when he comes to us, he can turn and stay there. ¹¹One day it happened that he came there and went to the upper room and lay down there. ¹²He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call to this Shunammite,” so he called to her, and she stood before him. ¹³He said to him, “Please say to her, ‘Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there for me to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’ ” She said, “I am living among my people.” ¹⁴Then he said, “What may be done for her?” Gehazi said, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.” ¹⁵And he said, “Call for her,” so he called for her and she stood in the doorway. ¹⁶And he said, “At this time next spring,^c you will be embracing a son.” She said, “No, my lord, O man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!” ¹⁷But the woman conceived, and she bore a son in the spring,^d which Elisha had promised to her.