2 Kings 4:8-17

Elisha and the Shunammite Woman

⁸ It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. ⁹ She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually. ¹⁰ Let us make, please, a little chamber on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.” ¹¹ One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there. ¹² He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him. ¹³ He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?”

She answered, “I dwell among my own people.” ¹⁴ He said, “What then is to be done for her?”

Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.” ¹⁵ He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the door. ¹⁶ He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.”

She said, ¹⁷ The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.