A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, «Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.»

So Elisha said to her, «What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?» And she said, «Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.»

Then he said, «Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors--empty vessels; do not gather just a few.

And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.»

So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured it out.

Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, «Bring me another vessel.» And he said to her, «There is not another vessel.» So the oil ceased.

Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, «Go, sell the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.»

Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a notable woman, and she persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food.

And she said to her husband, «Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly.

Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.»

And it happened one day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there.

Then he said to Gehazi his servant, «Call this Shunammite woman.» When he had called her, she stood before him.

And he said to him, «Say now to her, «Look, you have been concerned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?»́ She answered, «I dwell among my own people.»

So he said, «What then is to be done for her?» And Gehazi answered, «Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old.»

So he said, «Call her.» When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

Then he said, «About this time next year you shall embrace a son.» And she said, «No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maidservant!»

But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her.

And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

And he said to his father, «My head, my head!» So he said to a servant, «Carry him to his mother.»

When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.

Then she called to her husband, and said, «Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back.»

So he said, «Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.» And she said, «It is well.»

Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, «Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.»

And so she departed, and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So it was, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to his servant Gehazi, «Look, the Shunammite woman!

Please run now to meet her, and say to her, «Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?»́ And she answered, «It is well.»

Now when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push her away. But the man of God said, «Let her alone; for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.»

So she said, «Did I ask a son of my lord? Did I not say, «Do not deceive mé?»

Then he said to Gehazi, «Get yourself ready, and take my staff in your hand, and be on your way. If you meet anyone, do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answer him; but lay my staff on the face of the child.»

And the mother of the child said, «As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.» So he arose and followed her.

Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, «The child has not awakened.»

When Elisha came into the house, there was the child, lying dead on his bed.

He went in therefore, shut the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.

And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands; and he stretched himself out on the child, and the flesh of the child became warm.

He returned and walked back and forth in the house, and again went up and stretched himself out on him; then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

And he called Gehazi and said, «Call this Shunammite woman.» So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, «Pick up your son.»

So she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out.

And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, «Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.»

So one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were.

Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, «Man of God, there is death in the pot!» And they could not eat it.

So he said, «Then bring some flour.» And he put it into the pot, and said, «Serve it to the people, that they may eat.» And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, «Give it to the people, that they may eat.»

But his servant said, «What? Shall I set this before one hundred men?» He said again, «Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the LORD: «They shall eat and have some left over.»́

So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.

And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naamańs wife.

Then she said to her mistress, «If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.»

And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, «Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel.»

Then the king of Syria said, «Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.» So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said, 4 Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.

And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, «Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.»

So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, «Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.»

Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elishás house.

And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, «Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.»

But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, «Indeed, I said to myself, «He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.́

Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?» So he turned and went away in a rage.

And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, «My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, «Wash, and be cleań?»

So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, «Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.»

But he said, «As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.» And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

So Naaman said, «Then, if not, please let your servant be given two mule-loads of earth; for your servant will no longer offer either burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD.

Yet in this thing may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon--when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD please pardon your servant in this thing.»

Then he said to him, «Go in peace.» So he departed from him a short distance.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, «Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the LORD lives, I will run after him and take something from him.»

So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, «Is all well?»

And he said, «All is well. My master has sent me, saying, «Indeed, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.»́

So Naaman said, «Please, take two talents.» And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him.

When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house; then he let the men go, and they departed.

Now he went in and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, «Where did you go, Gehazi?» And he said, «Your servant did not go anywhere.»

Then he said to him, «Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.» And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow.

Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, «Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.»

So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God, and she went with her household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years.

It came to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went to make an appeal to the king for her house and for her land.

Then the king talked with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, «Tell me, please, all the great things Elisha has done.»

Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had restored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, «My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.»

And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed a certain officer for her, saying, «Restore all that was hers, and all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the land until now.»

Then Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, «The man of God has come here.»

And the king said to Hazael, «Take a present in your hand, and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, «Shall I recover from this disease?»́

So Hazael went to meet him and took a present with him, of every good thing of Damascus, forty camel-loads; and he came and stood before him, and said, «Your son Ben-Hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, «Shall I recover from this disease?»́

And Elisha said to him, «Go, say to him, «You shall certainly recover.́ However the LORD has shown me that he will really die.»

Then he set his countenance in a stare until he was ashamed; and the man of God wept.

And Hazael said, «Why is my lord weeping?» He answered, «Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child.»

So Hazael said, «But what is your servant--a dog, that he should do this gross thing?» And Elisha answered, «The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Syria.»

Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, «What did Elisha say to you?» And he answered, «He told me you would surely recover.»

But it happened on the next day that he took a thick cloth and dipped it in water, and spread it over his face so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his place.

Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoshaphat having been king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat began to reign as king of Judah.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah, for the sake of His servant David, as He promised him to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.

In his days Edom revolted against Judah́s authority, and made a king over themselves.

So Joram went to Zair, and all his chariots with him. Then he rose by night and attacked the Edomites who had surrounded him and the captains of the chariots; and the troops fled to their tents.

Thus Edom has been in revolt against Judah́s authority to this day. And Libnah revolted at that time.

Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

So Joram rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His motheŕs name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel.

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

Now he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

Then King Joram went back to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.