2 Kings 4:11-17

International Standard Version

¹¹ One day, Elisha^[a] came by to visit and stopped in to rest in the upper chamber. ¹² He told his attendant^[b] Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite.” So when he had summoned her, she stood in front of him.

¹³ Elisha^[c] told him, “Ask her, ‘Look how you’ve gone to all this trouble to care for us! What can I do for you? Do you wish to be mentioned to the king or to the head of the army?’”

She replied, “I’m at home^[d] living among my own people.”

¹⁴ He responded, “What, then, is to be done on her behalf?”

Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son and her husband is growing old.”

¹⁵ “Call her,” Elisha^[e] ordered. After he called her, she came and stood in the doorway, ¹⁶ and he told her, “About this time next year you will be embracing a son.”

“No, sir! Please, as a godly man,^[f] don’t mislead your servant!” ¹⁷ But the woman did conceive and did bear a son at that very same time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.