2 Kings 4:23-42

23But he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither 1new moon nor Sabbath.” So she just said, “It will be fine.” 24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Drive the donkey and go on; do not slow down 2the pace for me unless I tell you.” 25So she went on and came to the man of God at 3Mount Carmel.

When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, that person there is the Shunammite. 26Please run now to meet her and say to her, ‘Is it going well for you? Is it going well for your husband? Is it going well for the child?’” Then she 4answered, “It is going well.” 27But she came to the man of God 5at the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is 6troubled within her; and the Lord has concealed it from me and has not informed me.” 28Then she said, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘7Do not give me false hope’?”

29Then he said to Gehazi, “89Get ready and 10take my staff in your hand, and go; if you meet anyone, do not 1112greet him, and if anyone 13greets you, do not reply to him. And 14lay my staff on the boy’s face.” 30The mother of the boy said, “15As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her. 31Then Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or 16response. So he returned to meet him and informed him, saying, “The boy 17has not awakened.”

32When Elisha entered the house, behold the boy was dead, laid on his bed. 33So he entered and 18shut the door behind them both, and he prayed to the Lord. 34Then 19he got up on the bed and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, his hands on his hands, and he bent down on him; and the flesh of the child became warm. 35Then he returned and walked in the house back and forth once, and went up and 20bent down on him; and the boy sneezed seven times, then the boy opened his eyes. 36And he called Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Pick up your son.” 37Then she came in and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground, and 21she picked up her son and left.

38When Elisha returned to 22Gilgal, there was 23a famine in the land. 24As 25the sons of the prophets 26were sitting in front of him, he said to his servant, “27Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39Then one went out into the field to gather mallow, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds; and he came and sliced them into the pot of stew, because they did not know what they were. 40So they poured it out for the men to eat. But as they were eating the stew, they cried out and said, “You man of God, there is 28death in the pot!” And they were unable to eat. 41Then he said, “Bring flour.” 29And he threw it into the pot, and said, “Pour it out for the people that they may eat.” Then there was nothing harmful in the pot.

42Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “30Give them to the people that they may eat.”