2 Kings 4:8-17

The Shunammite Woman Will Bear a Son

8 Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to ^aShunem, where there was a ¹prominent woman, and she prevailed upon him to eat ²food. Now it happened, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat ²food. 9 And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy ^aman of God passing by us continually. 10 Please, let us ^amake a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”
11 Now it happened that one day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber, and there he ¹lay down. 12 Then he said to ^aGehazi his young man, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him. 13 And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have been ¹careful for us with all this ²care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army?’” And she ³answered, “I live among my own people.” 14 So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi ¹answered, “Truly she has no son, and her husband is old.” 15 And he said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. 16 Then he said, “^aAt this season ¹next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, ^bdo not lie to your servant-woman.”
17 Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season ¹the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

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