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.
16. Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.” Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not deceive your servant.”
17. The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.
18. The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.
19. Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head! ”His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.
21. Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.
22. She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and then come back.”
23. But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” She replied, “Everything is all right.”
24. Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Hurry, don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”