2 Kings Chapter 4
2 Kings is the 12th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains 2 Kings 4:1 to 2 Kings 4:9.
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2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."
2 Kings 4:2
Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil."
2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, "Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few.
2 Kings 4:4
"And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full."
2 Kings 4:5
So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured.
2 Kings 4:6
When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not one vessel more." And the oil stopped.
2 Kings 4:7
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
2 Kings 4:8
Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food.
2 Kings 4:9
She said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually.
2 Kings 4:10
"Please, let us make 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."
2 Kings 4:11
One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested.
2 Kings 4:12
Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings 4:13
He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people."
2 Kings 4:14
So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son and her husband is old."
2 Kings 4:15
He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
2 Kings 4:16
Then he said, "At this season next year you will embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant."
2 Kings 4:17
The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.
2 Kings 4:18
When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings 4:19
He said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
2 Kings 4:20
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died.
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