Lexham English Bible

2 Kings 4:7-11 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.