2 Kings 4:8–17

The Shunammite Woman Will Bear a Son

⁸Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to ^aShunem, where there was a ¹prominent woman, and she prevailed upon him to eat ²food. Now it happened, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat ³food.

⁹And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy ^aman of God passing by us continually.

¹⁰“Please, let us ^amake a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

¹¹Now it happened that one day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber, and there he ¹lay down.

¹²Then he said to ^aGehazi his young man, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him.

¹³And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have been ¹careful for us with all this ²care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army?’” And she ³answered, “I live among my own people.”

¹⁴So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi ¹answered, “Truly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

¹⁵And he said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.

¹⁶Then he said, “^aAt this season ¹next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, ^bdo not lie to your servant-woman.”

¹⁷Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season ¹the next year, as Elisha had said to her.