1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

2 Elisha said to her, "What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?"

She said, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."

3 Then he said, "Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers. 4 Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full."

5 So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil. 6 When the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container."

He said to her, "There isn’t another container." Then the oil stopped flowing.

7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."

8 One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread. 9 She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually. 10 Please, let’s make a little room on the roof. Let’s set a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there. When he comes to us, he can stay there."

11 One day he came there, and he went to the room and lay there. 12 He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him. 13 He said to him, "Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?’"

She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

14 He said, "What then is to be done for her?"

Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

15 He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door. 16 He said, "At this season next year, you will embrace a son."

She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant."

17 The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her. 18 When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 He said to his father, "My head! My head!"

He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20 When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died. 21 She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out. 22 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."

23 He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath."

She said, "It’s all right."

24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to."

25 So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite. 26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’"

She answered, "It is well."

27 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, "Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

28 Then she said, "Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?"

29 Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, 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. Then lay my staff on the child’s face."

30 The child’s mother said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you."

So he arose, and followed her.

31 Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, "The child has not awakened."

32 When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed. 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh. 34 He went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the child’s flesh grew warm. 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth, then went up and stretched himself out on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36 He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her.

When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."

37 Then she went in, fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; then she picked up her son, and went out.

38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

39 One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds from it, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew; for they didn’t recognize them. 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. As they were eating some of the stew, they cried out and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it.

41 But he said, "Then bring meal." He threw it into the pot; and he said, "Serve it to the people, that they may eat." And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."

43 His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?"

But he said, "Give it to the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’"

44 So he set it before them and they ate and had some left over, according to Yahweh’s word.

1 一位先知门徒的妻子哀求以利沙说： "你仆人我的丈夫死了， 你知道你的仆人是敬畏耶和华的。现在债主来要抓我的两个孩子作他的奴仆。"

2 以利沙对他说： "我可以为你作什么呢？告诉我， 你家里有什么呢？"她说： "婢女家中除了一瓶油以外， 什么也没有。"

3 以利沙说： "你到外面去向你所有的邻居借空器皿， 要尽量多借。

4 然后回去， 把你和你儿子关在家里， 你要把油倒在所有器皿里面， 装满了的就放在一边。"

5 于是妇人离开了他， 把自己和儿子关在门内； 她的儿子不住地把器皿拿到她面前， 她就把油倒进去。

6 器皿都倒满了的时候， 她对儿子说： "再拿一个器皿给我。"他对她说： "再没有器皿了。"油就止住了。

7 她去告诉神人， 神人说： "你去把油卖掉， 还清你的债务， 你和你的儿子可以靠着剩下的过活。"

8 有一天， 以利沙经过书念的时候， 那里有一位贵妇坚持留他吃饭； 于是以后每逢他从那里经过， 他总进去吃饭。

9 那妇人对她的丈夫说： "你看， 我知道那常从我们这里经过的， 是个圣洁的神人。

10 让我们盖一间有墙的小阁， 为他在里面摆设睡床、桌子、椅子和灯盏； 他到我们这里来的时候， 就可以到那里休息。"

11 有一天， 以利沙来到那里， 就上小阁休息， 在那里躺下。

12 他对他的仆人基哈西说： "你去叫这书念的妇人来。"于是他叫了她来， 站在他的面前。

13 他对他的仆人说： "你对她说： ‘看哪！ 你为我们费了这么多心思。我可以为你作些什么呢？你有事要我替你向王或军长说的吗？’"她说： "我住在自己的人民中间。"

14 于是他说： "我到底可以为她作些什么呢？"基哈西说： "她没有儿子， 而她的丈夫又老了。"

15 于是以利沙对他说： "再叫她来。"他就再去叫了她来， 她就站在门口。

16 以利沙说： "明年这个时分， 时候到了， 你必怀抱一个儿子。"她说： "神人哪！ 不要欺哄你的婢女。"

17 这妇人果然怀了孕， 到明年这个时分， 时候到了， 她就生了一个儿子， 正如以利沙对她所说的。

18 孩子渐渐长大。有一天， 他出来到收割的人中找他的父亲。

19 他对他的父亲说： "我的头啊！ 我的头啊！ "他的父亲对仆人说： "把他抱到他母亲那里。"

20 于是仆人把他抱着， 送到他母亲那里。孩子坐在他母亲的双膝上， 到中午就死了。

21 她把孩子抱上小阁， 放在神人的床上； 她把他关在里面， 就出去了。

22 她呼唤她的丈夫， 说： "请你派一个仆人和一头驴子给我。我要赶到神人那里， 立刻就回来。"

23 他说： "为什么你要在今天去见他呢？今天既不是月朔， 也不是安息日。"她说： "一切都平安。"

24 于是她把驴套上鞍， 对她的仆人说： "你来赶驴子走吧， 除非我告诉你， 否则不要因为我慢下来。"

25 于是她起程， 去到迦密山神人那里。神人从远处看见她的时候， 就对他的仆人基哈西说： "看哪！ 书念的妇人在那边呢！

26 现在你跑去迎接她， 对她说： ‘你平安吗？你的丈夫平安吗？你的儿子平安吗？’"她说： "都平安。"

27 她来到山上神人那里， 就抱住神人的脚； 基哈西上前要推开她， 但神人说： "由她吧， 因为她的心灵很痛苦。耶和华隐瞒我， 没有告诉我。"

28 她说： "我有向我主求过儿子吗？我不是说过： ‘不要欺哄我’的吗？"

29 神人对基哈西说： "你束上腰， 手里拿着我的手杖前去； 不论遇见的是谁， 都不要向他问安； 若是有人向你问安， 你也不要回答他， 只要去把我的手杖放在孩子的脸上。"

30 孩子的母亲说： "我指着永活的耶和华和你的性命起誓， 我决不会离开你。"神人只好起身随她而去。

31 基哈西在他们前面去了， 把手杖放在孩子的脸上， 可是没有声音， 也没有反应； 于是他回来迎着以利沙， 告诉他说： "那孩子还没有醒过来。"

32 以利沙来到书念妇人的家， 看见孩子已经死了， 躺在他的床上。

33 于是他进去， 把自己和孩子二人关在门内， 然后向耶和华祷告。

34 他又上床伏在孩子身上， 使自己的口对着孩子的口， 自己的眼对着孩子的眼， 自己的手放在孩子的手上； 他伏在孩子身上， 孩子的身体就渐渐温暖起来。

35 然后他下来在房内来回走了一趟， 再上去， 伏在孩子身上； 那孩子打了七个喷嚏， 跟着就张开了眼睛。

36 神人呼唤基哈西， 说： "你去叫那书念的妇人来。"他就去叫她， 她来到他那里， 他就说： "把你的儿子抱起来。"

37 于是她进去， 在他的脚前下拜， 俯伏在地上； 然后把儿子抱起来， 出去了。

38 以利沙又回到吉甲， 那地正发生饥荒。先知的门徒坐在他面前。他对他的仆人说： "把大锅放在火上， 给先知的门徒们煮点东西吃。"

39 有一个人到田野那里去采摘野菜。他找到一棵野瓜藤， 就摘下藤上的野瓜装满了他的衣服。他回来， 把瓜切了放入煮东西的锅中， 他们不知道是什么东西。

40 后来他们倒出来给众人吃， 他们在吃锅里的东西的时候， 都惨叫起来， 说： "神人哪！ 锅中有致死的毒物！ "他们就不能吃了。

41 他说： "拿些面给我。"他把面放在锅中， 说： "倒出来给众人吃吧。"锅里就没有毒了。

42 有一个人从巴力．沙利沙来， 他带给神人二十个用初熟大麦做的饼， 还有新穗子； 以利沙说： "把这些给众人吃吧！ "

43 他的仆人说： "我怎能把这一些食物摆在一百个人面前呢？"神人说： "给众人吃吧， 因为耶和华这样说： ‘他们要吃， 而且还有剩下的。’"

44 于是仆人摆在众人面前， 他们都吃， 而且还有剩下的， 正如耶和华所说的。