and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us,
that he shall turn in there.
004:011 It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into
the chamber and lay there.
004:012 He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite.
When he had called her, she stood before him.
004:013 He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful
for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would
you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?
She answered, I dwell among my own people.
004:014 He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered,
Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.
004:015 He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
004:016 He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall
embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God,
do not lie to your handmaid.
004:017 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time
came round, as Elisha had said to her.
004:018 When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out
to his father to the reapers.
004:019 He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant,
Carry him to his mother.
004:020 When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat
on her knees until noon, and then died.
004:021 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God,
and shut [the door] on him, and went out.
004:022 She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of
the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man
of God, and come again.
004:023 He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon
nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.
004:024 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive,
and go forward; don't slacken me the riding, except I bid you.
004:025 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel.
It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said
to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:
004:026 please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you?
is it well with your husband? is it well with the child?
She answered, It is well.
004:027 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold
of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man
of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her;
and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.
004:028 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say,
Do not deceive me?
004:029 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your waist, and take my
staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man,
Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again:
and lay my staff on the face of the child.
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