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5 So she left. After she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing her [containers], and she kept pouring.
6 When they were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container." But he replied, "There aren't any more." Then the oil stopped.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, "Go sell the oil and pay your debt; you and your sons can live on the rest."[a]

The Shunammite Woman's Hospitality

8 One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who [lived] there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.[b]
9 Then she said to her husband, "I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,
10 so let's make a small room upstairs and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp there for him. Whenever he comes, he can stay there."

The Shunammite Woman's Son

11 One day he came there and stopped and went to the room upstairs to lie down.
12 He ordered his attendant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called her and she stood before him.
13 Then he said to Gehazi, "Say to her, 'Look, you've gone to all this trouble for us. What can [we] do for you? Can [we] speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?' " She answered, "I am living among my own people."
14 So he asked, "Then what should be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."
15 "Call her," Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
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2 Kings 4:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 4

This chapter treats of the miracles of Elisha, of his multiplying a poor widow's pot of oil for the payment of her husband's debts, 2Ki 4:1-7 of obtaining a son for a Shunamitish woman, who had been very hospitable to him, 2Ki 4:8-17, of his raising up her son to life when dead, 2Ki 4:18-37, of his curing the deadly pottage made of wild gourds, 2Ki 4:38-41, and of his feeding one hundred men with twenty barley loaves, 2Ki 4:42-44.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 2

  • [a] 1 Kg 17:10-16
  • [b] Mt 10:40-42; 3 Jn 5-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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