1 E uma mulher, das mulheres dos filhos dos profetas, clamou a Eliseu, dizendo: Meu marido, teu servo, morreu; e tu sabes que o teu servo temia ao SENHOR; e veio o credor, para levar os meus dois filhos para serem servos.
2 E Eliseu lhe disse: Que te hei de fazer? Dize-me que é o que tens em casa. E ela disse: Tua serva não tem nada em casa, senão uma botija de azeite.
3 Então disse ele: Vai, pede emprestadas, de todos os teus vizinhos, vasilhas vazias, não poucas.
4 Então entra, e fecha a porta sobre ti, e sobre teus filhos, e deita o azeite em todas aquelas vasilhas, e põe à parte a que estiver cheia.
5 Partiu, pois, dele, e fechou a porta sobre si e sobre seus filhos; e eles lhe traziam as vasilhas, e ela as enchia.
6 E sucedeu que, cheias que foram as vasilhas, disse a seu filho: Traze-me ainda uma vasilha. Porém ele lhe disse: Não há mais vasilha alguma. Então o azeite parou.
7 Então veio ela, e o fez saber ao homem de Deus; e disse ele: Vai, vende o azeite, e paga a tua dívida; e tu e teus filhos vivei do resto.
8 Sucedeu também um dia que, indo Eliseu a Suném, havia ali uma mulher importante, a qual o reteve para comer pão; e sucedeu que todas as vezes que passava por ali entrava para comer pão.
9 E ela disse a seu marido: Eis que tenho observado que este que sempre passa por nós é um santo homem de Deus.
10 Façamos-lhe, pois, um pequeno quarto junto ao muro, e ali lhe ponhamos uma cama, uma mesa, uma cadeira e um candeeiro; e há de ser que, vindo ele a nós, para ali se recolherá.
11 E sucedeu que um dia ele chegou ali, e recolheu-se àquele quarto, e se deitou.
12 Então disse ao seu servo Geazi: Chama esta sunamita. E chamando-a ele, ela se pôs diante dele.
13 Porque ele tinha falado a Geazi: Dize-lhe: Eis que tu nos tens tratado com todo o desvelo; que se há de fazer por ti? Haverá alguma coisa de que se fale por ti ao rei, ou ao capitão do exército? E disse ela: Eu habito no meio do meu povo.
14 Então disse ele: Que se há de fazer por ela? E Geazi disse: Ora ela não tem filho, e seu marido é velho.
15 Por isso disse ele: Chama-a. E, chamando-a ele, ela se pôs à porta.
16 E ele disse: A este tempo determinado, segundo o tempo da vida, abraçarás um filho. E disse ela: Não, meu senhor, homem de Deus, não mintas à tua serva.
17 E concebeu a mulher, e deu à luz um filho, no tempo determinado, no ano seguinte, segundo Eliseu lhe dissera.
18 E, crescendo o filho, sucedeu que um dia saiu para ter com seu pai, que estava com os segadores,
19 E disse a seu pai: Ai, a minha cabeça! Ai, a minha cabeça! Então disse a um moço: Leva-o à sua mãe.
20 E ele o tomou, e o levou à sua mãe; e esteve sobre os seus joelhos até ao meio-dia, e morreu.
21 E subiu ela, e o deitou sobre a cama do homem de Deus; e fechou a porta, e saiu.
22 E chamou a seu marido, e disse: Manda-me já um dos moços, e uma das jumentas, para que eu corra ao homem de Deus, e volte.
23 E disse ele: Por que vais a ele hoje? Não é lua nova nem sábado. E ela disse: Tudo vai bem.
24 Então albardou a jumenta, e disse ao seu servo: Guia e anda, e não te detenhas no caminhar, senão quando eu to disser.
25 Partiu ela, pois, e foi ao homem de Deus, ao monte Carmelo; e sucedeu que, vendo-a o homem de Deus de longe, disse a Geazi, seu servo: Eis aí a sunamita.
26 Agora, pois, corre-lhe ao encontro e dize-lhe: Vai bem contigo? Vai bem com teu marido? Vai bem com teu filho? E ela disse: Vai bem.
27 Chegando ela, pois, ao homem de Deus, ao monte, pegou nos seus pés; mas chegou Geazi para retirá-la; disse porém o homem de Deus: Deixa-a, porque a sua alma está triste de amargura, e o Senhor me encobriu, e não me manifestou.
28 E disse ela: Pedi eu a meu senhor algum filho? Não disse eu: Não me enganes?
29 E ele disse a Geazi: Cinge os teus lombos, toma o meu bordão na tua mão, e vai; se encontrares alguém não o saúdes, e se alguém te saudar, não lhe respondas; e põe o meu bordão sobre o rosto do menino.
30 Porém disse a mãe do menino: Vive o Senhor, e vive a tua alma, que não te hei de deixar. Então ele se levantou, e a seguiu.
31 E Geazi passou adiante deles, e pôs o bordão sobre o rosto do menino; porém não havia nele voz nem sentido; e voltou a encontrar-se com ele, e lhe trouxe aviso, dizendo: O menino não despertou.
32 E, chegando Eliseu àquela casa, eis que o menino jazia morto sobre a sua cama.
33 Então entrou ele, e fechou a porta sobre eles ambos, e orou ao Senhor.
34 E subiu à cama e deitou-se sobre o menino, e, pondo a sua boca sobre a boca dele, e os seus olhos sobre os olhos dele, e as suas mãos sobre as mãos dele, se estendeu sobre ele; e a carne do menino aqueceu.
35 Depois desceu, e andou naquela casa de uma parte para a outra, e tornou a subir, e se estendeu sobre ele, então o menino espirrou sete vezes, e abriu os olhos.
36 Então chamou a Geazi, e disse: Chama esta sunamita. E chamou-a, e veio a ele. E disse ele: Toma o teu filho.
37 E entrou ela, e se prostrou a seus pés, e se inclinou à terra; e tomou o seu filho e saiu.
38 E, voltando Eliseu a Gilgal, havia fome naquela terra, e os filhos dos profetas estavam assentados na sua presença; e disse ao seu servo: Põe a panela grande ao lume, e faze um caldo de ervas para os filhos dos profetas.
39 Então um deles saiu ao campo a apanhar ervas, e achou uma parra brava, e colheu dela enchendo a sua capa de colocíntidas; e veio, e as cortou na panela do caldo; porque não as conheciam.
40 Assim deram de comer para os homens. E sucedeu que, comendo eles daquele caldo, clamaram e disseram: Homem de Deus, há morte na panela. Não puderam comer.
41 Porém ele disse: Trazei farinha. E deitou-a na panela, e disse: Dai de comer ao povo. E já não havia mal nenhum na panela.
42 E um homem veio de Baal-Salisa, e trouxe ao homem de Deus pães das primícias, vinte pães de cevada, e espigas verdes na sua palha, e disse: Dá ao povo, para que coma.
43 Porém seu servo disse: Como hei de pôr isto diante de cem homens? E disse ele: Dá ao povo, para que coma; porque assim diz o Senhor: Comerão, e sobejará.
44 Então lhos pôs diante, e comeram e ainda sobrou, conforme a palavra do Senhor.
1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.
3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.
4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.
5 So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.
6 And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped.
7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
8 Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.
9 And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.
10 So let us make a little room on the wall; and put a bed there for him, and a table and a seat and a light; so that when he comes to us, he will be able to go in there.
11 Now one day, when he had gone there, he went into the little room and took his rest there.
12 And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.
13 And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.
14 So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.
15 Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.
16 And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.
17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.
18 Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.
19 And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.
20 And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.
21 Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.
22 And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.
23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.
24 Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.
25 So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;
26 Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.
27 And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.
28 Then she said, Did I make a request to my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not give me false words?
29 Then he said to Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.
30 But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.
31 And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake.
32 And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.
33 So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.
34 Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm.
35 Then he came back, and after walking once through the house and back, he went up, stretching himself out on the child seven times; and the child's eyes became open.
36 And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.
37 And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.
38 And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.
39 And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.
40 Then they gave the men soup from the pot. And while they were drinking the soup, they gave a cry, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot; and they were not able to take any more food.
41 But he said, Get some meal. And he put it into the pot, and said, Now give it to the people so that they may have food. And there was nothing bad in the pot.
42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.
43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.
44 So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.