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          DASV: 2 Kings 4    

1 Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to
Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that
your servant feared the LORD. The creditor has come to take
away my two boys as slaves."
2 Elisha asked her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what
do you have in the house?" She replied, "Your servant has
nothing except a small jar of olive oil in the house."
3 Then he said, "Go, borrow as many empty containers from
your neighbors as you can.
4 Go in shutting the door behind you and your sons. Then
pour the oil into all those containers; and when each one
is full set it aside."
5 So she left him, and shut the door behind her and her sons.
As they brought the containers to her, she kept pouring.
6 When the containers were full, she said to her son,
"Bring me another container." But he replied, "There are
no more." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
7 When she came and told the man of God, he said, "Go, sell
the olive oil, and pay your debt, and you and your sons
can live on the rest."

8 One day Elisha was passing by Shunem. There was a wealthy
woman who lived there who invited him for a meal. So
whenever he passed by, he would stop in for something
to eat.
9 She said to her husband, "Look, I’m certain that the
man who regularly visits us is a holy man of God.
10 Let’s build a small upper room for him with a bed,
table, chair and candlestick. Then whenever he visits
us he will have a place to stay."

11 One day when Elisha went there, he went up to the
guestroom and laid down.
12 He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite."
So he called her and she stood before him.
13 He said to Gehazi, "Tell her, you have gone to all
this trouble for us; what can we do for you? Can we put
in a good word for you to the king or the captain of
the army?" She answered, "I’m well taken care of by my
own people."
14 Elisha asked, "What then can we do for her?" Gehazi
replied, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."
15 So Elisha said, "Call her." So he called her, and she
stood at the door.
16 He said, "At this time next year you will hold a son
in your arms." She said, "No, my lord! O man of God,
do not deceive your servant."
17 But the woman conceived, and bore a son at that time
the following year just as Elisha had told her.

18 One day when the child had grown, he went out to his
father who was with the reapers.
19 He complained to his father, "My head, my head." His
father said to his servant, "Carry him back to his mother."
20 So the servant carried him, and brought him to his mother.
The boy sat on her lap until noon, and then died.
21 She went up and laid the boy on the bed of the man
of God, and shut the door on him and left.
22 She called her husband, and said, "Please send me one
of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may
go to the man of God quickly, then come back again."
23 He said, "Why would you go to him today? It is not a
new moon or Sabbath." She said, "It will be all right."
24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant,
"Hurry up, don't slow down unless I tell you to."
25 So she went out and came to the man of God at Mount
Carmel. When the man of God saw her in the distance, he
said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there's the Shunammite
woman.
26 Please run to meet her, and say to her, 'Is everything
all right? Is your husband all right? Is the child well?'"
Then she answered, "Everything is fine."
27 When she came to the man of God at the mountain, she
caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away,
but the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is
deeply troubled; and the LORD has hidden it from me,
and has not told me."
28 Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not
say, 'Do not deceive me'?"
29 Then Elisha told Gehazi, "Tuck your robes up, and
take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone,
do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not
answer him. Lay my staff on the child's face."
30 The mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives,
and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha
got up and followed her.

31 Gehazi ran on ahead of them, and laid the staff on
the child's face but there was no sound or sign of life.
So Gehazi returned to meet Elisha and told him, "The
child has not awakened."
32 When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the child
dead, lying on his bed.
33 So he went in and shut the door on the two of them,
and prayed to the LORD.
34 He went up, and lay upon the child, putting his mouth
on his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon
his hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the
flesh of the child became warm.
35 Then Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the
room. He again got on the bed and stretched himself
out on him and the child sneezed seven times and
opened his eyes.
36 Elisha called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite."
So he called her. When she came in, he said, "Take
your son."
37 She went in, fell at his feet and bowed herself to
the ground. She took her son and left.

38 Now when Elisha returned to Gilgal there was a famine
in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting
before him, and he said to his servant, "Put the large
pot on the fire, and boil stew for the sons of the
prophets."
39 One of them went out into the field to gather some herbs
and found a wild vine. He picked a lap full of wild gourds
from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew
although no one knew what they were.
40 So they dished up the stew for the men to eat. As they
were eating from the stew, they cried out, "O man of God,
there is death in the pot." They could not eat it.
41 But Elisha said, "Then bring me some flour." He threw
it into the pot. Then he said, "Dish it up for the
people, so that they may eat." Then there was nothing
harmful in the pot.

42 A man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man
of God from the firstfruits, twenty barley loaves and
some fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said,
"Give it to the people, so that they may eat."
43 His servant said, "How can I set this before a
hundred men?" But he said, "Give it to the people,
so that they may eat. For this is what the LORD
says, 'They will eat, and have some leftover.'"
44 So he set it before them, they ate, and there
were leftovers, according to the word of the LORD.

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