3. Then he said to her, “Go, ask for yourself some containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. You must collect as many empty containers as you can!
4. You must also go and shut the door behind you and your children, and you must pour out oil into all of these containers and set the filled ones aside.”
5. So she went from him, and she shut the door behind her and her children. They were bringing containers to her, and she kept pouring.
6. It happened that when the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring near me another container,” but he said to her, “There is not another container.” Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
7. So she came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over.”
8. It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there was a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat.
9. She said to her husband, “Please now, I know that he is a holy man of God who is passing our way regularly;
10. let us make a small enclosed room upstairs and put a bed, table, chair, and lampstand there for him, so that when he comes to us, he can turn and stay there.
11. One day it happened that he came there and went to the upper room and lay down there.
12. He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call to this Shunammite,” so he called to her, and she stood before him.
13. He said to him, “Please say to her, ‘Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there for me to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’ ” She said, “I am living among my people.”
14. Then he said, “What may be done for her?” Gehazi said, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. And he said, “Call for her,” so he called for her and she stood in the doorway.
16. And he said, “At this time next spring, you will be embracing a son.” She said, “No, my lord, O man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!”
17. But the woman conceived, and she bore a son in the spring, which Elisha had promised to her.
18. The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father and to the reapers.