A woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that he feared Yahweh. Now a creditor wants to take away my two children to be slaves.” Elisha said, “What do you have in the house?” She answered, “A jar of oil, nothing else.” Elisha said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all of your neighbors and not just a few. Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all the containers and set aside those which are full.” When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” But there were no more left. Then the oil stopped flowing, and Elisha said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt and feed yourselves from what is left over.”
One day Elisha went to Shunem. There was a rich woman who persuaded him to eat with her. He ate with her as often as he passed through Shunem. And she made the holy man Elisha a room with a table, a chair and a lampstand.
One day he came there and entered again and slept in the room. Then he asked his servant Gehazi to call the Shunammite woman. He said to her, “You have done all of these things for us, now what should I do for you?” “Gehazi said, “She has no son and her husband is old.” Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway, “In about a year, you will have a son.” She said, “Do not deceive your servant, O man of God.” And she conceived and bore a son. When he was grown, he went out to his father to the reapers. He lamented, “O my head, my head!” His father told a servant to bring him to his mother. She sat him on her lap until noon, and then the child died. She put him on the bed in the holy man’s room, closed the door and went out. She called her husband, “Send me a servant and a donkey. I want to hurry to the man of God.” He said, “Why? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” But she rode and came to the man of God, who saw her coming. He sent his servant Gehazi to her to ask her if it was well with her. She said, “It is well!” But when she came to the hill, she took hold of his feet. And Gehazi wanted to push her away. But Elisha said, “Leave her alone, her soul is troubled and the Lord has hidden it from me.” Then she said, “When did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’ ” Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your mantle into your belt, take my staff, and go your way. If you meet any man, do not greet him and if anyone greets you, do not answer him again. And lay my staff on the child’s face.” Gehazi did this, but there was no sound and no sign of life. So he returned. Then Elisha came into the house and went into the room and prayed to the Lord. Then he lay down on the child and put his mouth on the child’s mouth, his eyes on his eyes, his hands on his hands and stretched himself upon the boy. He became warm. Then he stood up again and walked back and forth in the house one time and got back on the bed and stretched himself upon him. The boy sneezed seven times. Then he opened his eyes. Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” She came in and fell at his feet, bowed down, took her son and went out.
When Elisha came to Gilgal, there was a famine. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him. And he gave his servant a large pot to cook vegetables in for them. The servant gathered herbs and wild gourds in the field and cut them into the pot – but they did not know what they were – and he put it before the men to eat. And as they were eating, they cried out and said, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” Because they could not eat it. But Elisha said, “Bring meal and throw it in the pot and serve it to the people.” There was nothing harmful in the pot anymore. A man came from Baal Shalishah and brought first fruits of the harvest, twenty loaves of barley. Elisha told his servant, “Give it to the people to eat.” His servant said, “How am I to divide twenty loaves among one hundred people? Elisha said, “The Lord says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over!’