2. Elisha said, “I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me, what do you have in your house?”“Nothing,” she said. “Well, I do have a little oil.”
7. She went and told the story to the man of God. He said, “Go sell the oil and make good on your debts. Live, both you and your sons, on what’s left.”
8. One day Elisha passed through Shunem. A leading lady of the town talked him into stopping for a meal. And then it became his custom: Whenever he passed through, he stopped by for a meal.
18-19. The child grew up. One day he went to his father, who was working with the harvest hands, complaining, “My head, my head!”His father ordered a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. The servant took him in his arms and carried him to his mother. He lay on her lap until noon and died.
21. She took him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in alone, and left.
22. She then called her husband, “Get me a servant and a donkey so I can go to the Holy Man; I’ll be back as soon as I can.”