2 Kings 4 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Now there came a day when Elisha went over to Shunem, where there was a prominent and influential woman, and she persuaded him to eat a meal. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he stopped there for a meal.

One day he came there and turned in to the upper room and lay down to rest.

But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, just as Elisha had said to her.

When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.

Then he said to Gehazi, “[fn]Gird up your loins (prepare now!) and take my staff in your hand, and go [to the woman’s house]; if you meet any man [along the way], do not greet him and if a man greets you, do not [stop to] answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the boy [as soon as you reach the house].”

When Elisha came into the house, the child was dead and lying on his bed.

Elisha came back to Gilgal during a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Now [at another time] a man from Baal-shalisha came and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and fresh ears of grain [in the husk] in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give it to the people [affected by the famine] so that they may eat.”