1. And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared יהוה. And the lender has come to take my two sons to be his slaves.”
2. And Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Inform me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your female servant has none at all in the house except a pot of oil.”
3. And he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbours, empty vessels, do not get a few.
4. “And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons. Then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the filled ones.”
5. So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her, and she poured it out.
6. And it came to be, when the vessels were filled, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” But he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” And the oil ceased.
7. So she went and informed the man of Elohim, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt. And you and your sons live on the rest.”
8. And it came to be on a day that Elisha went to Shunĕm, where there was a prominent woman, and she urged him to eat some food. And it came to be, as often as he passed by, that he turned in there to eat some food.
9. And she said to her husband, “Look, I know that this is a set-apart man of Elohim, who passes by us continually.
10. “Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall, and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand. And it shall be, whenever he comes to us, let him turn in there.”
11. And it came to be on a day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there.
12. And he said to Gĕḥazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” So he called her, and she stood before him.
13. And he said to him, “Please say to her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What is there to be done for you? Should I speak on your behalf to the sovereign or to the commander of the army?’ ” And she answered, “I am dwelling among my own people.”
14. And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gĕḥazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. And he said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.