Elisha and the Shunammite Woman
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One day Elisha went on to h Shunem, where a i 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 know that this is a holy g man of God who is continually passing our way.
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Let us make a small room on the roof 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 j Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." 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 k 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?" Gehazi 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, l about this time next year, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, g O man of God; m do not lie to your servant."
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But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time l the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.
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Joshua 19:18
Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem.
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1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
2 Samuel 19:32
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
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2 Kings 4:7
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.
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2 Kings 5:20 - 21
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.
2 Kings 5:25
He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere.
2 Kings 8:4 - 5
Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.
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2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'
2 Kings 5:1
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
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2 Kings 4:7
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.
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2 Kings 4:28
Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, 'Do not deceive me?'
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2 Kings 4:16
And he said, "At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.
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