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She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
8
One day Eli'sha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.
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And she said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way.
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Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there."
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One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.
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And he said to Geha'zi his servant, "Call this Shu'nammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.
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And he said to him, "Say now to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."
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And he said, "What then is to be done for her?" Geha'zi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."
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He said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
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And he said, "At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant."
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But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Eli'sha had said to her.