ULT 2 KI Chapter 4

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4 Now a woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant, my husband, has died, and you, you know that your servant was fearing Yahweh. But the creditor has come to take two of my children for himself as slaves.” 2 And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Declare to me. What is there to you in the house?” And she said, “There is not to your maidservant anything in the house except a jar of oil.” 3 And he said, “Go, ask for yourself vessels from outside, from all of your neighbors, empty vessels. Do not get few. 4 Then come and shut the door behind you and behind your sons, and pour into all of those vessels. And the full, set aside.” 5 And she went from him, and she shut the door behind her and behind her sons. They were bringing to her, and she was pouring. 6 And it happened as she was filling the vessels that she said to her son, “Bring to me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” And the oil stopped. 7 And she came and declared to the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and repay your debt. And you may live on the rest, you and your sons.”

8 And it was the day, and Elisha went over to Shunem, and a great woman was there, and she constrained him to eat bread. And it happened that as often as he passed by, he turned aside to there to eat bread. 9 And she said to her husband, “Behold, please, I know that he is a holy man of God, the one passing by to us regularly. 10 Please, let us make a small upper room of a wall, and let us put for him there a bed and a table and a chair and a lampstand. And it will be, when he comes to us, he may turn aside to there.” 11 And it was the day, and he came to there. And he turned aside to the upper chamber, and he lay down there. 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call for this Shunammitess.” And he called for her, and she stood to his face. 13 And he said to him, “Please say to her, ‘Behold, you have cared all of this care for us. What to do for you? Is there to speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’ ” But she said, “I am living in the midst of my people.” 14 And he said, “But what to do for her?” And Gehazi said, “Indeed, there is not a son to her, and her husband is old.” 15 And he said, “Call to her.” And he called to her, and she stood at the entrance. 16 And he said, “In this season, according to the time of reviving, you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.”

17 And the woman conceived, and she bore a son in that season, according to the time of reviving, as Elisha had spoken to her. 18 And the child grew. And it was the day, and he went out to his father, to the reapers. 19 And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” And he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 And he picked him up and brought him to his mother. And he sat on her knees until noon, then he died. 21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. And she shut on him, and she went out. 22 And she called to her husband and said, “Please send to me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, and let me run to the man of God, and let me return.” 23 And he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is not a new moon and not a Sabbath.” And she said, “Peace.” 24 And she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Drive and go! Do not slacken for me to ride unless I say to you.” 25 And she went, and she came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. And it happened, when the man of God saw her from opposite, that he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, that Shunammitess.

26 Now please run to meet her and say to her, ‘Is welfare to you? Is welfare to your husband? Is welfare to the child?’ ” And she said, “Peace.” 27 And she came to the man of God, to the mountain, and she held onto his feet. And Gehazi approached to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter to her, but Yahweh has hidden from me, and he has not declared to me.” 28 And she said, “Did I request a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me’?” 29 And he said to Gehazi, “Gird your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you find a man, you shall not bless him, and if a man blesses you, you shall not answer him. And you shall put my staff on the face of the young man.” 30 And the mother of the young man said, “The life of Yahweh and the life of your soul, if I should leave you.” And he arose, and he went after her. 31 And Gehazi went on to their faces, and he put the staff on the face of the young man, but there was no voice, and there was no hearing. And he returned to meet him, and he declared to him, saying, “The young man did not awaken.”

32 And Elisha entered the house, and behold, the young man was dead, having been laid on his bed. 33 And he went in, and he shut the door behind the two of them, and he prayed to Yahweh. 34 And he went up, and he lay on the child, and he put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms. And he stretched out upon him, and the flesh of the child became warm. 35 And he returned, and he walked in the house, once here and once here. And he went up, and he stretched out upon him. And the young man sneezed until seven times, and the young man opened his eyes. 36 And he called to Gehazi, and he said, “Call to that Shunammitess.” And he called her, and she came to him. And he said, “Pick up your son.” 37 And she came in, and she fell at his feet, and she prostrated herself to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

38 And Elisha returned to Gilgal (and famine was in the land), and the sons of the prophets were sitting to his face. And he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 And one went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a vine of the field, and he gathered from it gourds of the field, the fullness of his garment. And he came, and he sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know. 40 And they poured out for the men to eat. And it happened, as they ate from the stew, that they, they cried out and said, “Death is in the pot, man of God!” And they were not able to eat. 41 And he said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot, and he said, “Pour it out for the people, that they may eat.” And a harmful thing was not in the pot.

42 And a man came from Baal Shalishah, and he brought to the man of God bread of firstfruits, 20 loaves of bread of barley and fresh grain in his sack. And he said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.” 43 And the one serving him said, “How shall I set this to the face of a hundred men?” And he said, “Give to the people that they may eat, for thus says Yahweh, ‘Eating and leaving over.’ ” 44 And he set to their faces, and they ate, and they left over, according to the word of Yahweh.

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ULT 2 KI Chapter 4

ULT 2 KI Chapter 4