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2 Kings 4
⁹ She said to her husband, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God passing by us continually.
¹⁰ Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there."
¹¹ One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested.
¹² Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And when he had called her, she stood before him.
¹³ He said to him, "Say now to her, ’Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?’" And she answered, "I live among my own people."
¹⁴ So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son and her husband is old."
¹⁵ He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
¹⁶ Then he said, "At this season next year you will embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant."
¹⁷ The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.
¹⁸ When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.
¹⁹ He said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."