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Then he said to Gehazi his young man, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her, and she stood before him.

Then the child was grown. And the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.

And he said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his young man, "Carry him to his mother."

Then he carried him and brought him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. Now it happened that when the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his young man, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

Then she came to the man of God to the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me."

Then Elisha came into the house, and behold, the boy was dead and laid on his bed.

And he went up and lay on the child and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.

Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the boy sneezed seven times and the boy opened his eyes.

Then she came in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out.

Now Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his young man, "Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

Then one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds filling his cloak and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat."

And his attendant said, "What, will I give this before one hundred men?" But he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat, for thus says Yahweh, ‘They shall eat and have some left over.'"

Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him Yahweh had given salvation to Aram. The man was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

And she said to her mistress, "I wish that my master were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy."

Then Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel."

Then the king of Aram said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went and took in his hand ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes.

And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, "So now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy."

Now it happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to put to death and to make alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But know now, and see how he is seeking a quarrel against me."