2 Kings 4:8–17

The Shunammite Woman

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

⁹She said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive 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 shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

¹¹¹One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and ²rested.

¹²Then he said to ^aGehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he had called her, she stood before him.

¹³He 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 captain 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.”

¹⁵He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, 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 maidservant.”

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