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4 And one of the wives of the sons of the Prophets cried to Elisha, saying, “Your servant, my husband, is dead! And you know that your servant feared the LORD! And the creditor has come to take my two sons to be his bondmen.”
2 Then Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have at home?” And she said, “Your handmaid has nothing at home, except a pitcher of oil.”
3 And he said, “Go around and borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels, and not just a few.
4 “And when you have come in, you shall shut the door upon yourself and upon your sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and set aside those that are full.”
5 So she departed from him and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons. And they brought to her, and she poured out.
6 And when the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There are no more vessels.” And the oil ceased.
7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go. Sell the oil and pay those to whom you are in debt, and you and your children live off the rest.”
8 And it happened at that time that Elisha came to Shunem. And while there, an older woman persuaded him to eat food. And whenever he passed by, he would turn in there to eat food.
9 And she said to her husband, “Behold, I know now that this is a holy man of God who continually passes by us.
10 “Please, let us make him a little chamber, with walls. And let us set him up a bed there, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, so that he may turn in there when he comes to us.”
11 And one day, he came there, and turned into the chamber, and lay in it,
12 and said to Gehazi, his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he called her, she stood before him.
13 Then he said to him, “Say to her now, ‘Behold, you have had all this great care for us. What shall we do for you? Is there anything to be spoken to the king for you, or to the captain of the army?” And she answered, “I dwell among my own people.”
14 Again he said, “What is then to be done for her?” Then Gehazi answered, “Indeed, she has no son, and her husband is old.
15 Then he said, “Call her.” And he called her, and she stood in the door.
16 And he said, “At this time next year, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “Oh my Lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.”
17 So the woman conceived, and bore a son, in that same season, according to the time of life that Elisha had said to her.
18 And when the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
19 And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” Who said to his servant, “Take him to his mother.”
20 And he took him and brought him to his mother. And he sat on her knees until noon and died.
21 Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door upon him and went out.
22 Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send one of the young men and one of the donkeys with me, for I will hurry to the man of God, and come back.”
23 And he said, “Why would you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath day.” And she answered, “All shall be well.”
24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive and go forward. Do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you.”
25 So, she went and came to the man of God, to Mount Carmel. And when the man of God saw her from a distance, he said to Gehazi, his servant, “Behold, the Shunammite.
26 “Run now, I say, to meet her, and say to her, ‘Are you well? Is your husband well? Is the child well?’” And she answered, “We are well.”
27 And when she came to the man of God, to the mountain, she caught him by his feet. And Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away. But the man of God said, “Let her alone! For her soul is troubled within her, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”
28 Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
29 Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird your loins and take my staff in your hand and go your way. If you meet anyone, do not greet him. And if anyone greets you, do not answer him. And lay my staff upon the face of the child.”
30 And the mother of the child said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” Therefore, he arose and followed her.
31 But Gehazi had gone before them and had laid the staff upon the face of the child. But he neither spoke nor heard. Therefore, he returned to meet him and told him, saying, “The child is not awake.”
32 Then Elisha came into the house. And behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
33 Therefore, he went in and shut the door upon the two of them and prayed to the LORD.
34 Afterward, he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands and stretched himself upon him. And the flesh of the child grew warm.
35 And he went and walked up and down in the house and went up and spread himself upon him. Then, the child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36 Then he called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So, he called her, who came in to him. And he said to her, “Take your son.”
37 And she came and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out.
38 Afterward, Elisha returned to Gilgal. And a famine was in the land. And the children of the Prophets dwelt with him. And he said to his servant, “Set on the great pot and boil stew for the children of the Prophets.”
39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs and found, as it were, a wild vine and gathered wild gourds from it. His garment full, he came and shredded them into the pot of stew, for they did not know them.
40 So, they poured it out for the men to eat. And when they ate the stew, they cried out, and said, “O you man of God! Death is in the pot!” And they could not eat.
41 Then he said, “Bring flour.” And he cast it into the pot, and said, “Pour it out for the people, so that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.
42 Then a man came from Baal Shalisha and brought the man of God food from the firstfruits: twenty loaves of barley and full ears of corn in the husk. And he said, “Give it to the people, so that they may eat.”
43 And his servant answered, “How should I set this before a hundred men?” He said again, “Give it to the people, so that they may eat. For thus says the LORD: ‘They shall eat, and some shall be left over.’”
44 So, he set it before them, and they ate. And some was left over, according to the Word of the LORD.
5 Now was there one Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, a great man, and honorable in the sight of his lord, because by him the LORD had delivered the Aramites. He also was a mighty man and valiant, but a leper.
2 And the Aramites had gone out by bands and had taken a little maid from the land of Israel. And she served Naaman’s wife.
3 And she said to her mistress, “I wish my lord were with the Prophet that is in Samaria. He would soon deliver him of his leprosy.”
4 And he went in and told his lord, saying, “(Thus and thus) says the maid who is from the land of Israel.”
5 And the king of Aram said, “Go your way there. And I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” And he departed and took ten talents of silver with him, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing,
6 and brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read to this effect, “Now when this letter has come to you, understand that I have sent you Naaman, my servant, so that you may heal him of his leprosy.”
7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to give life that he sends to me, so that I could heal a man from his leprosy? Therefore, please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
8 But when Elisha, the man of God, had heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me now, and he shall know that there is a Prophet in Israel.”
9 Then Naaman came with his horses, and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash yourself in Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come back to you, and you shall be cleansed.”
11 But Naaman was angry and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought to myself, ‘He will surely come out and stand and call on the Name of the LORD his God and put his hand on the place and heal the leprosy.’
12 “Are not Abanah and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash myself in them and be cleansed?” So, he turned and departed in displeasure.
13 But his servants came and spoke to him, and said, “Father, if the Prophet had commanded you a great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”
14 Then he went down and washed himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh came back, like the flesh of a little child. And he was clean.
15 And he turned back to the man of God (he and all his company), and came and stood before him, and said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the world but in Israel. Now, therefore, please receive a reward from your servant.”
16 But he said, “As the LORD lives (before Whom I stand), I will not receive it.” And he tried to persuade him to take it. But he refused.
17 Moreover, Naaman said, “Shall there not be given two mules’ load of this earth to your servant? For from now on, your servant will offer neither burnt sacrifice nor offering to any other god except to the LORD.
18 “In this may the LORD be merciful to your servant: that when my master goes into the House of Rimmon, to worship there, and leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the House of Rimmon—when I do bow down in the House of Rimmon—that the LORD be merciful to your servant in this point.”
19 To whom he said, “Go in peace.” So, he departed from him, about half a day’s journey of ground.
20 And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Aramite, Naaman, not receiving those things from his hand that he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”
21 So, Gehazi followed speedily after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he dismounted the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
22 And he answered, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, “Behold, two young men have come to me from Mount Ephraim, of the children of the Prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.”
23 And Naaman said, “Yes. Take two talents.” And he broke open some bundles and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and gave them to two of his servants, so that they might bear them before him.
24 And when he came to the tower, he took them out of their hands and laid them in the house and sent away the men. And they departed.
25 Then, he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, “Where did you go, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”
26 But he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to take money, and to receive garments and olives and vineyards and sheep and oxen and menservants and maidservants?
27 “The leprosy, therefore, of Naaman shall cling to you, and to your seed, forever.” And he went out from his presence as a leper, white as snow.
6 And the children of the Prophets said to Elisha, “If you please, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us.
2 “Let us now go to Jordan, so that every man may take a beam from there and make us a place to dwell.” And he answered, “Go.”
3 And one said, “Please agree to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”
4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 And as one was cutting down a tree, the iron fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas master, for it was borrowed!”
6 And the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. Then he cut down a piece of wood and cast it in there. And he caused the iron to float.
7 Then he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” And he stretched out his hand and took it.
8 Then the king of Aram warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, and said, “In (such and such a place) shall be my camp.”
9 Therefore, the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you do not go over to such a place. For the Aramites have come down there.”
10 So, the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him, and warned him of, and saved himself from there, not just once or twice.
11 And the heart of the king of Aram was troubled for this thing. Therefore, he called his servants, and said to them, “Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”
12 Then one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king. But Elisha the Prophet, who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your private chamber.”
13 And he said, “Go and spy out where he is, so that I may send and fetch him.” And one told him, saying, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”
14 So he sent horses there, and chariots, and a mighty army. And they came by night and surrounded the city.
15 And when the servant of the man of God arose early to go out, behold, an army surrounded the city with horses and chariots. Then his servant said to him, “Alas, master, what shall we do?”
16 And he answered, “Do not fear. For those who are with us, are more than those who are with them.”
17 Then Elisha prayed, and said, “LORD, I pray, open his eyes so that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the servant. And he looked, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire, all around Elisha.
18 So they came down to him. But Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And He struck them with blindness, according to the Word of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, nor is this the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man whom you seek.” But he led them to Samaria.
20 And when they had come to Samaria, Elisha said, “LORD, open their eyes so that they may see.” And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw. And behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 And the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, “My father, shall I beat them? Shall I beat them?”
22 And he answered, “You shall not beat them. Do you beat those whom you have taken with your sword, and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, so that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”
23 And he made great preparation for them. And when they ate and drank, he sent them away. And they went to their master. So, the bands of Aram no longer came into the land of Israel.
24 But afterward, Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.
25 So, there was a great famine in Samaria. For lo, they besieged it until a donkey’s head was at eighty pieces of silver, and a twenty-fourth of a seah of dove’s dung at five pieces of silver.
26 And as the king of Israel was going upon the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27 And he said, “The LORD does not help you. How could I help you with the barn or with the wine press?
28 Also the king said to her, “What ails you?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today. And we will eat my son tomorrow.’
29 “So we boiled my son and ate him. And I said to her the next day, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”
30 And when the king had heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he went upon the wall, the people looked. And behold, he had sackcloth underneath, upon his flesh.
31 And he said, “God do so to me and more also if the head of Elisha, the son of Shaphat, shall stay on him this day.”
32 Now Elisha sat in his house. And the elders sat with him. And the king sent a man before him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you not see how this murderer’s son has sent to take away my head? Take heed when the messenger comes. Shut the door and handle him roughly at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
33 While he still talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him, and said, “Behold, this misery comes from the LORD. Should I wait on the LORD any longer?”
36 And as they spoke these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, “Peace to you.”
37 But they were terrified and full of fear, thinking that they had seen a spirit.
38 Then He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts?
39 “Look at My hands and My feet. For it is I, Myself. Touch Me and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
40 And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and feet.
41 And while they still did not believe for joy, and wondered, He said to them, “Do you have any food here?”
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
43 And He took it and ate before them.
44 And He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you - that all which is written of Me in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, must be fulfilled.
45 Then He opened their minds, so that they might understand the Scriptures.
46 And said to them, “Thus is it written. And thus it was necessary for Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 “Now, you are witnesses of these things.
49 And behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are filled with power from on high.”
50 Afterward, He led them out into Bethany, and lifted up His hands and blessed them.
51 And it happened that, as He blessed them, He departed from them and was carried up into Heaven.
52 And they worshipped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
53 and were continually in the Temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
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