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Elisha said, "Borrow many empty containers from all your neighbors.
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Then close the door behind you and your children, and pour oil into all those containers. When one is full, set it aside."
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So she left him and closed the door behind her and her children. The children kept bringing containers to her, and she kept pouring.
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When the containers were full, she told her son, "Bring me another container." He told her, "There are no more containers." So the olive oil stopped flowing.
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She went and told the man of God. He said, "Sell the oil, and pay your debt. The rest is for you and your children."
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One day Elisha was traveling through Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She had invited him to eat [with her]. So whenever he was in the area, he stopped in to eat.
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She told her husband, "I know he's a holy man of God. And he regularly travels past our house.
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Let's make a small room on the roof and put a bed, table, chair, and lamp stand there for him. He can stay there whenever he comes to visit us."
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One day he came [to their house], went into the upstairs room, and rested there.
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He told his servant Gehazi, "Call this Shunem woman." Gehazi called her, and she stood in front of him.
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Elisha said to Gehazi, "Ask her what we can do for her, since she has gone to a lot of trouble for us. Maybe she would like us to speak to the king or the commander of the army for her." She answered, "I'm already living among my own people."