1. NOW THE wife of a son of the prophets cried to Elisha, Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. But the creditor has come to take my two sons to be his slaves.
2. Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you [of sale value] in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.
3. Then he said, Go around and borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels–and not a few.
4. And when you come in, shut the door upon you and your sons. Then pour out [the oil you have] into all those vessels, setting aside each one when it is full.
5. So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her sons, who brought to her the vessels as she poured the oil.
6. When the vessels were all full, she said to her son, Bring me another vessel. And he said to her, There is not a one left. Then the oil stopped multiplying.
7. Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons live on the rest.
8. One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a rich and influential woman lived, who insisted on his eating a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.
9. And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by continually.
10. Let us make a small chamber on the [housetop] and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. Then whenever he comes to us, he can go [up the outside stairs and rest] here.
11. One day he came and turned into the chamber and lay there.
12. And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.