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Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son

8 One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal. ⁹She said to her husband, ‘Look, I am sure that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God. ¹⁰Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that he can stay there whenever he comes to us.’

11 One day when he came there, he went up to the chamber and lay down there. ¹²He said to his servant Gehazi, ‘Call the Shunammite woman.’ When he had called her, she stood before him. ¹³He said to him, ‘Say to her, Since you have taken all this trouble for us, what may be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’ She answered, ‘I live among my own people.’ ¹⁴He said, ‘What then may be done for her?’ Gehazi answered, ‘Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.’ ¹⁵He said, ‘Call her.’ When he had called her, she stood at the door. ¹⁶He said, ‘At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son.’ She replied, ‘No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant.’

17 The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared to her.