7. She went and told the man of God.He said, “Sell the oil, and pay your debt. The rest is for you and your children.”
8. One day Elisha was traveling through Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She had invited him to eat ⌊with her⌋. So whenever he was in the area, he stopped in to eat.
9. She told her husband, “I know he’s a holy man of God. And he regularly travels past our house.
10. Let’s make a small room on the roof and put a bed, table, chair, and lamp stand there for him. He can stay there whenever he comes to visit us.”
11. One day he came ⌊to their house⌋, went into the upstairs room, and rested there.
12. He told his servant Gehazi, “Call this Shunem woman.”Gehazi called her, and she stood in front of him.
13. Elisha said to Gehazi, “Ask her what we can do for her, since she has gone to a lot of trouble for us. Maybe she would like us to speak to the king or the commander of the army for her.”She answered, “I’m already living among my own people.”
14. “What should we do for her?” Elisha asked.Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. Elisha said, “Call her.” So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
16. Elisha said, “At this time next spring, you will hold a baby boy in your arms.”She answered, “Don’t say that, sir. Don’t lie to me. You’re a man of God.”
17. But the woman became pregnant and had a son at that time next year, as Elisha had told her.
18. Several years later the boy went to his father, who was with the harvest workers.
19. ⌊Suddenly,⌋ he said to his father, “My head! My head!”The father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. The servant picked him up and brought him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, when he died.
21. She took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God, left ⌊the room⌋, and shut the door behind her.
22. She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. I will go quickly to the man of God and come back again.”
23. Her husband asked, “Why are you going to him today? It isn’t a New Moon Festival or a day of worship.”But she said goodbye to him.
24. She saddled the donkey. Then she told her servant, “Lead on. Don’t slow down unless I tell you.”
25. So she came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.When he saw her coming at a distance, he told his servant Gehazi, “There is the woman from Shunem.
26. Run to meet her and ask her how she, her husband, and the boy are doing.”“Everyone’s fine,” she answered.