4 And when thou art come in, thou shalte shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.

5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.

6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. 7 Then she came, and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest. 8 ¶ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

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9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.

10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there. 12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

B. C. 894.

d c.3.16.
Ro.4.17.

or, scant.
Ma.6.37..

44
8.5..9.

Jno 2.7..9.
Ep.3.20.

gor, credit

от.

h There
var a

day.

Jo 19.18.
laid hold

on him.

Mat.5 16.

Mat. 10.41,

42.
Ma. 9.41.
He. 13.2
1 Pe. 4.9.

m He.6.10.
n Ge.18.10,

14.

o set time.

p ver.23.
9 P113.9.

La. 1.36.

r Na. 28.11.

8 peace.

The Shunammite's son raised.

25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount " Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:

26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

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27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? 29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

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30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. 31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but me to ride there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

t restrain
not for

u c.2.25.
1.35.2.

Job 1.21.

22.

Pa.39.9.

13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Le 10.3. Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.

14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

16 And he said, About" this season, accord-e ing to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.

17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

w by his

feet.

x Mat.20.
31.

32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his i Mat. 28.9. hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. 35 Then he returned, and walked in the 1 Sai.10. house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

41 But he said, Then bring meal.

• And he

cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

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42 ¶ And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and

Gehazi smitten with leprosy.

14 Then w went he down, and dipped him- | self seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

2 KINGS.-CHAP. V., VI. full ears of corn " in the husk thereof. And he 4. M. 3115. said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. 43 And his servitor said, What should I set this before a hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

W

or, gar ment.

Lu.9.17.

Jn.6.11..
13.

w Mat. 14.
20; 15.37.

15 ¶ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood 44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, A. M. 3110. before him: and he said, Behold, now I know and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.

OW Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the

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B. C. 894.

a Lu.4.27.

b before.

2

that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a

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e lifted up, blessing of thy servant.

or, accept

ed in
counte-

nance, or,

16 But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he gracious urged him to take it; but he refused. 17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules'

d or,victory.

e was before.
{ before.

LORD had given a deliverance unto Syria: heggather in. burden of earth? for thy servant will hencewas also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

h1 Sa.9.8
c.8.8,9.

i in his
hand.

2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the 1.37.14. land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.

5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

k Ge.30.2.
1 De.32.39.
1 Sa.2.6.

18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth * on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of 1207 Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon & thy servant in this thing.

Lu. 11.54.
n1 Ki.18.
36,37.

Eze.2.5.
33.33.

o Jn.9.7.
P Jos.6.4..

6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naanian my servant to thee, that thou mayest w Eze.47.1.. recover him of his leprosy.

7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

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19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way. 20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master bath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

23 And Naaman said, Be 1 content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him. 24 And when he came to them tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in 2 Ch.30. the house and he let the men go, and they departed. h Mar 5.34.

1 Th.19. c.7.2

8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, say-e ing, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? Ex.20.5. let him come now to me, and he shall know " that there is a prophet in Israel.

18,19.

11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Ábana and Pharpar, rivers of o Eze.33.31. Damascus, better than all the waters of Is-p not hither rael? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My " father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

q Pr.12.19,
22.

r Is.59.2,3.
Hos. 10.13.

8 Nu. 12.10.
c. 15.5.

A. M. 3111.
B. C. 893.

a c.4.39.

25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went P no whither.

26 And he said unto him, Went not my heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive-yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

CHAPTER VI.

1 Elisha, giving leave to the young prophets to enlarge their dwellings, causeth iron to swim. He discloseth the king of Syria's counsel 18 The army, which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elisha, is snitten with blindness 19 Being brought into Samaria, they are dismissed in peace. 24 The famine in Samaria causeth women to eat their own children. 30 The king sendeth to slay Elisha.

AND the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

a host compassed the city both with horses A. M. 3112 of a murderer hath sent to take away my
and chariots. And his servant said unto him,
Alas, my master! how shall we do?

The unbeliever trode to death.

2 KINGS.-CHAP. VIII.

were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noises of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and Tr they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.

B. C. 892.

g 2 Sa.5.24.
c.19.7.
Job 15.21.

The Shunammite's land restored.

2 | be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it
with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people
trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
CHAPTER VIII.

he.322,&c.

11 K.10.29.

JP.14.5.
48.4..6.
68.12.
Pr.21.1.

12 And the king arose in the night, and I said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the B. C. 891. field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. 13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

14 They took therefore two chariot horses: and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

15 And they went after them unto Jordan : and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of o Lu.19.41. the gate and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:

19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing Mi.2.1.

1 The Shunammite, having left her country seven years, to avoid the forewarned famine, for Elisha's miracle sake, hath her land restored by the king. 7 Hazael, being sent with a present by Ben-hadad to Elisha at Damascus, after he had heard the prophecy, killeth his master, and succeedeth him. 16 Jehoram's wicked reign in Judah. 20 Edom and Libnah revolt. 23 Ahaziah succeedeth Jehoram. 25 Ahaziah's wicked reign. 28 He visiteth Joram, wounded, at Jezreel.

HEN spake Elisha unto the woman, whose ΤΗ son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went of the Philistines seven years. with her household, and sojourned in the land

3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. 4 And the king talked with a Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was her's, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now. 7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thy hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

him, Thou mayest certainly recover: how10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto beit the LORD hath showed me that he shall surely die.

13 And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest "surely recover.

15 And it came to pass on the 'morrow, that

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20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and c.9.15. the people fled into their tents.

22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah volted at the same time.