The Widow’s Oil
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!” Mat 18:252Ki 2:3Neh 5:2-5Psa 147:11Lev 25:39-411Sa 22:22Ki 4:38Act 13:26
“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” 1Ki 17:12Jas 2:52Ki 2:9Jhn 6:5-7Mat 15:34Act 3:62Co 6:102Ki 6:26-27
She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few. Jhn 2:7Jhn 16:24Psa 81:102Ki 13:18-192Ki 3:16 Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.” Mat 6:6Mrk 8:5-91Ki 17:19-202Ki 4:32-33Act 9:40Eph 3:20Jhn 2:7-9Jhn 6:11
So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring. 2Ki 5:11Heb 11:7-81Ki 17:15-16Luk 1:45 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” Mat 14:202Ki 13:19Luk 6:191Ki 17:142Ch 6:12-132Ki 4:43-44Jhn 6:12Jos 5:12
But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.” 2Th 3:7-121Ki 12:22Php 4:8Psa 37:21Rom 12:171Th 2:9-101Th 4:12
The Shunammite Woman
(Matthew 10:40–42)
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat. Jos 19:181Ki 1:32Ki 4:11-12Gen 19:3Job 1:3Job 32:9Luk 24:292Sa 19:32
Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God. 1Ki 17:24Pro 31:10-112Ki 4:71Th 2:10Tit 1:81Ki 17:18Mat 5:161Pe 3:1 Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.” Rom 12:13Mat 10:41-42Mat 25:40Heb 10:241Pe 4:9-10Heb 13:2Isa 32:8Luk 8:3
One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down. And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” 2Ki 8:4-51Ki 19:32Ki 3:112Ki 4:29-312Ki 5:20-271Ki 18:43Act 13:5
And when he had called her, she stood before him, and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” 2Ti 1:16-18Heb 6:10Php 4:18-191Ti 6:6-81Th 5:12-13Heb 13:5Rom 16:62Sa 19:13
“I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” 1Sa 1:8Gen 15:2-3Luk 1:7Gen 18:10-14Gen 25:21Jdg 13:21Sa 1:2Gen 17:17
“Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
“Call her,” said Elisha.
So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway. And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” Gen 18:10Luk 1:132Ki 4:28Gen 17:21Gen 18:12-152Ki 2:19Gen 17:16-17Luk 1:30-31
“No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her. Gen 21:1Luk 1:36Psa 113:9Heb 11:111Sa 1:19-20Luk 1:24-25
Elisha Raises the Shunammite’s Son
(Acts 20:7–12)
And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters. Rut 2:4
“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. Jer 4:19Job 14:1-2
So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. Luk 7:12Jhn 11:14Jhn 11:3Jhn 11:51Ki 17:17Ezk 24:16-18Gen 22:2Gen 37:3 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out. 2Ki 4:321Ki 17:192Ki 4:102Ki 4:7
And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.” 2Ki 4:242Ki 4:26Act 9:38Jhn 11:3
“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” Num 10:101Ch 23:31Num 28:11Isa 1:13-15
“Everything is all right,” she said.
Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.” 1Ki 13:131Ki 13:231Sa 25:19-20Exo 4:20 So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. 2Ki 2:251Ki 18:191Ki 18:42Isa 35:2
When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman. Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” Act 15:362Ki 4:231Sa 17:181Sa 3:18Gen 37:14Job 1:21-22Psa 39:9Gen 29:6
And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.” 2Sa 7:3Gen 18:171Sa 1:102Ki 4:252Ki 6:12Amo 3:7Job 10:1Mat 15:23
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’” Gen 30:12Ki 4:16
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, 1 take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.” 2Ki 2:141Ki 18:46Exo 14:162Ki 9:1Luk 10:4Act 19:12Exo 4:17Exo 7:19-20
And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her. 2Ki 2:2Rut 1:16-182Ki 2:4Exo 33:12-16
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.” Jhn 11:111Ki 18:261Ki 18:291Sa 14:371Sa 28:6Act 19:13-17Dan 12:2Eph 5:14
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed. 1Ki 17:17Jhn 11:17Luk 8:52-53 So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD. Mat 6:62Ki 4:4Act 9:40Jas 5:13-181Ki 17:20-21Luk 8:511Ki 18:26-272Ki 5:11
Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm. 1Ki 17:21Act 20:10 Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. 2Ki 13:212Ki 8:51Ki 17:222Ki 8:1Act 9:40Jhn 11:43-44Luk 7:14-15Luk 8:55
Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Heb 11:351Ki 17:23Luk 7:15
Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out. Heb 11:351Ki 17:242Ki 2:152Ki 4:27
Elisha Purifies the Poisonous Stew
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.” 2Ki 2:12Ki 2:32Ki 8:1Act 22:3Luk 10:39Lev 26:261Sa 19:201Sa 7:16-17
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. Heb 12:15Isa 5:4Jer 2:21Mat 15:13
And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it. Mrk 16:18Exo 10:17Exo 15:231Ki 17:182Ki 1:112Ki 1:132Ki 4:9Deu 33:1
Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot. 2Ki 2:21Exo 15:251Co 1:252Ki 5:102Ki 6:6Act 28:5Jhn 9:6
Feeding a Hundred Men
(Matthew 15:29–39; Mark 8:1–10)
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. 1Sa 9:7Jhn 6:13Jhn 6:9Mat 14:16-211Sa 9:42Ki 7:1Mat 15:32-381Co 9:11
“Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” Luk 9:13Mat 14:20Jhn 6:9Jhn 6:11-13Mat 16:8-10Luk 9:17Mat 14:16-17Mat 15:33-34
“Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.