2 Kings 4:8–17

Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son

⁸Now it happened one day that Elisha went to ^dShunem, where there was a ¹notable woman, and she ²persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food. ⁹And she said to her husband, “Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly. ¹⁰Please, let us make ³a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.”

¹¹And it happened one day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there. ¹²Then he said to ^eGehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” When he had called her, she stood before him. ¹³And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Look, you have been concerned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’ ”

She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

¹⁴So he said, “What then is to be done for her?”

And Gehazi answered, “Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

¹⁵So he said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. ¹⁶Then he said, ⁴“About this time next year you shall embrace a son.”

And she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, ^fdo not lie to your maidservant!”

¹⁷But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her.