3. Then he said, “Go borrow for yourself vessels from all your neighbors—empty jars—not just a few.
4. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and behind your sons, and pour into all those vessels, setting aside what is full.”
5. So she left him and shut the door behind her and behind her sons. They kept bringing the vessels to her and she kept pouring.
6. When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” But he said to her, “There isn’t another vessel.” So the oil stopped.
7. Then she came and told the man of God. So he said, “Go sell the oil and pay your debt, then you and your sons can live on the rest.”
8. One day when Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. And so it was, whenever he passed through, he would stop for a meal.
9. Then she said to her husband, “Behold now, I realize that this man who often passes through is a holy man of God.
10. Please, let’s make a little walled room on the roof, and let’s put there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand for him. Then whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11. One day he came there, and retired to the upper chamber and lay down there.
12. Then he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
13. He said to him, “Tell her: Behold, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Can something be communicated to the king or to the commander of the army for you?” She answered, “I am living among my own people.”
14. So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” Then Gehazi answered, “In fact, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. “Call her,” he said. And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.