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2 Kings 4:3-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

3. Then he said, “Go and borrow empty containers from everyone — from all your neighbors. Do not get just a few.

4. Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these containers. Set the full ones to one side.”

5. So she left.After she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing her containers, and she kept pouring.

6. When they were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.”But he replied, “There aren’t any more.” Then the oil stopped.

7. She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go sell the oil and pay your debt; you and your sons can live on the rest.”

8. One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

9. Then she said to her husband, “I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,

10. so let’s make a small room upstairs and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp there for him. Whenever he comes, he can stay there.”

11. One day he came there and stopped and went to the room upstairs to lie down.

12. He ordered his attendant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she stood before him.

13. Then he said to Gehazi, “Say to her, ‘Look, you’ve gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army? ’ ”She answered, “I am living among my own people.”

14. So he asked, “Then what should be done for her? ”Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

15. “Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.

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