8And one day, Elisha went to Shunem, where was a wealthy woman; and she urged him to stay for a meal. And so it was, that whenever he passed that way, he turned in there to eat. 9And she said to her husband, “Look, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly. 10Let us make a little room and set a bed, a table, a stool, and a lampstand in there for him. And then when he comes here, he shall stay in there.” 11And one day, when he came there, he turned into the room, and lay down there. 12And he said to Gehazi, his servant, “Call this Shunammite”. And when he had called her, she stood before him. 13And he said to Gehazi, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have shown us all this kind care; what can be done for you? Would you be spoken for to the king, or to the commander of the army?’” And she answered, “I dwell among my own people.” 14And Elisha said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi answered, “Verily she has no child, and her husband is old”. 15And he said, “Call her”. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. 16And he said, “About this season, when that time comes, you shall embrace a son”. And she said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid”. 17But the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the set time.

18And the child was older, one day he went out to his father with the reapers. 19And he said to his father, “My head, my head!”. And he said to a lad, “Take him to his mother”. 20And when he had brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. 21And she went up, and laid him on the bed of Elisha, the man of God, and went out and shut the door. 22And she called to her husband, and said, “Send me one of the young men, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and then return”. 23And he said, “Why would you go to him today? It is neither a new moon, nor sabbath”. And she said, “That’s all right”. 24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Go, lead on; do not slow down for me, unless I ask you to”.

25So she went to Mount Carmel to the man of God. And, when the man of God saw her coming from afar, he said to Gehazi, his servant, “Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. 26Run to meet her, and say, “Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?” And she answered, “It is well”. 27And when she reached the man of God on the hill, she grabbed him by the feet. Gehazi came over to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and not told me”. 28Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’” 29Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, and take my staff in your hand, and run. If you meet anyone, do not stop to greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answer him; and lay my staff upon the face of the child”. 30And the mother of the child said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I am staying with you”. And he got up, and followed her.

31And Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi came back to meet him, and said, “The child has not awakened”. 32And when Elisha came in the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying upon his bed. 33He went in and shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to the LORD. 34And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon the child’s mouth, and his eyes upon the child’s eyes, and his hands upon the child’s hands; and he stretched himself upon the child: and the flesh of the child became warm. 35Then he left his room, and paced to and fro in the house, and then went back up, and stretched himself upon the child; and the child sneezed seven times, and opened his eyes. 36And he called Gehazi, and said, “Call this Shunammite”. So he called her. And when she had come to him, he said, “Take up your son”. 37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

38And Elisha returned to Gilgal. And there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets. 39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild and unfamiliar vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and shredded them into the pot; but they knew not what they were. 40So they poured the stew out for the men to eat. And, as they began eating, that they cried out, and said, “Oh you man of God, there is death in the pot”. And they could not eat it. 41But he said, “Bring me some meal (flour)”. And he threw it into the pot; and he said, “Pour it out for the people, that they may eat”. And there was now no harm in the pot.

42And a man came from Baal-shalisha, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first fruits, and full ears of grain in its husk. And Elisha said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat”. 43And his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” Elisha repeated, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the LORD, ‘They shall eat, and shall have some left over.’” 44So he set it before them, and they ate, and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.