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2 Kings 4 📜 📕 ↷
Widow's Oil
1 AND a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.📜💬📚
2 To whom Eliseus said: What wilt thou that I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? But she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house, but a little oil, to anoint me withal.📜💬📚
3 To whom he said: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.📜💬📚
4 And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, thou and thy sons: and pour thereof into all these vessels: and when they shall be full, thou shalt take them away.📜💬📚
5 The woman therefore went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her vessels, and she poured in.📜💬📚
6 And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have none. And the oil stood.📜💬📚
7 And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest:📜💬📚
Shunammite Woman
8 And there came a certain day, and Eliseus passed by Sunam: and there was there a great woman, which held him to eat bread: and when he passed often that way, he turned in to her to eat bread.📜💬📚
9 Who said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passeth by us often.📜💬📚
10 Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and set him a little bed in it, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us he may tarry there.📜💬📚
11 There came therefore a certain day, and coming he turned in to the chamber, and rested there.📜💬📚
12 And he said to Giezi his servant: Call this Sunamite. Who when he had called her, and she stood before him,📜💬📚
13 he said to his servant: Speak to her: Behold thou hast diligently ministered to us in all things, what wilt thou that I do for thee? Hast thou any business, and wilt thou that I speak to the king, or the general of the warfare? Who answered: I dwell in the midst of mine own people.📜💬📚
14 And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Ask not: for she hath no son, & her husband is old.📜💬📚
15 He therefore commanded him to call her: who when she was called, and stood before the door,📜💬📚
16 he said to her: At this time, this self same hour, if life accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not I beseech thee my lord, man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.📜💬📚
17 And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in that time, and in the self-same hour, that Eliseus had said.📜💬📚
Elisha Raises the Shunammite's Son
18 And the child grew. And upon a certain day, when going forth he went to his father, unto the reapers,📜💬📚
19 he said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant, take him, and bring him to his mother,📜💬📚
20 who when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she set him upon her knees until noon, and he died.📜💬📚
21 And she went up, and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going forth.📜💬📚
22 called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of the servants, & an ass, that I may run to the man of God, and return.📜💬📚
23 Who said to her: For what cause doest thou go to him? The Calends be not to day, nor the Sabbath. Who answered: I will go.📜💬📚
24 And she saddled the ass, and commanded her servant: drive, and make haste, make no stay in going. And do that which I command thee.📜💬📚
25 She therefore went forward, and came to the man of God into mount Carmel: and when the man of God saw her over against him, he said to Giezi his servant: Behold that Sunamite.📜💬📚
26 Go therefore to meet her, & say to her: Is all well about thee & about thy husband, and about thy son? Who answered: Well.📜💬📚
27 And when she was come to the man of God into the mount, she caught his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone, for her soul is in anguish, and our Lord hath hid it from me, & hath not told me.📜💬📚
28 Who said to him: Did I ask a son of my Lord? Did I not say to thee: Mock me not?📜💬📚
29 And he said to Giezi: Gird thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, & go. If a man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and thou shalt put my staff upon the face of the child.📜💬📚
30 Moreover the mother of the child said: Our Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose therefore, and followed her.📜💬📚
31 But Giezi was gone before them, and had put the staff upon the face of the child, and there was not voice, nor sense: and he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.📜💬📚
32 Eliseus therefore went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed:📜💬📚
33 and going in he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to our Lord.📜💬📚
34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and he put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, & his hands upon his hands: and he bowed himself over him, and the child's flesh was warmed.📜💬📚
35 But he returning, walked up and down in the house, once hither and thither: and he went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened his eyes.📜💬📚
36 And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamite. Who being called, went in unto him: Who said: Take thy son.📜💬📚
37 She came and fell at his feet, and adored upon the ground: and took her son, and went out,📜💬📚
Elisha Purifies the Poisonous Stew
38 and Eliseus returned into Galgal. And there was a famine in the land, and the children of the Prophets dwelt before him; and he said to one of his servants: Set on a great pot, and seethe broth for the children of the Prophets.📜💬📚
39 And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs: and he found as it were a wild vine, and gathered of it the colocynthides of the field, and filled his mantle, and returning cut it into the pot of broth, for he knew not what it was.📜💬📚
40 They therefore poured it to their fellows, to eat: and when they had tasted of the broth, they cried, saying: Death is in the pot, man of God. And they could not eat.📜💬📚
41 But he said: Bring meal, and when they had brought it, he cast it into the pot, and said: pour in for the multitude, that they may eat. And there was no more any bitterness in the pot.📜💬📚
Feeding a Hundred Men
42 And a certain man came from Baalsalisa bringing to the man of God loaves of the first fruits, twenty barley loaves, and new wheat in his scrip. But he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.📜💬📚
43 And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before an hundred men? Again he said: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith our Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.📜💬📚
44 He therefore set it before them: who did eat, and there was left according to the word of our Lord.📜💬📚
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