2 Kings 4 (NET)

2 Kings 4:1¹Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:2²Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:3³He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:4⁴Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:5⁵So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:6⁶When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, “Bring me another container.” But he answered her, “There are no more.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:7⁷She went and told the prophet. He said, “Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:8⁸One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:9⁹She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:10¹⁰Let’s make a small, private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:11¹¹One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:12¹²He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” So he did so and she came to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:13¹³Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:14¹⁴So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:15¹⁵Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:16¹⁶He said, “About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:17¹⁷The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:18¹⁸The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:19¹⁹He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:20²⁰So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:21²¹She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:22²²She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:23²³He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:24²⁴She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:25²⁵So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:26²⁶Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, “Everything’s fine.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:27²⁷But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, “Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn’t tell me about it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:28²⁸She said, “Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t mislead me?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:29²⁹Elisha told Gehazi, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don’t stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child’s face.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:30³⁰The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha got up and followed her back.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:31³¹Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha he told him, “The child did not wake up.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:32³²When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child lying dead on his bed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:33³³He went in by himself and closed the door. Then he prayed to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:34³⁴He got up on the bed and spread his body out over the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. As he bent down across him, the boy’s skin grew warm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:35³⁵Elisha went back and walked around in the house. Then he got up on the bed again and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:36³⁶Elisha called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:37³⁷She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:38³⁸Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was a famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant, “Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:39³⁹Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine. He picked some of its fruit, enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:40⁴⁰The stew was poured out for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:41⁴¹He said, “Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said, “Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:42⁴²Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet —twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:43⁴³But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord has said, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

2 Kings 4:44⁴⁴So he set it before them; they ate and had some left over, just as in the Lord’s message.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions