2 Kings 4:11-17

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¹¹ One day Elisha came to the woman’s house. After he went to ·his [the upper] room and rested, ¹² he said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite woman.”

When the servant had called her, she stood in front of him. ¹³ Elisha had told his servant, “Now say to her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak to the king or the commander of the army for you?’”

She answered, “I live among my own people [^Ca way of saying she is content and has no pressing needs].”

¹⁴ Elisha said to Gehazi, “But what can we do for her?”

He answered, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

¹⁵ Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Call her.” When he called her, she stood in the doorway. ¹⁶ Then Elisha said, “This ·time [season] next year, you will hold a son in your arms.”

The woman said, “No, ·master [lord], man of God, don’t ·lie to [deceive; mislead] me, your servant!”

¹⁷ But the woman ·became pregnant [conceived] and gave birth to a son at that ·time [season] the next year, just as Elisha had told her.