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2 Kings · read by Joseph Balsan
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2 Kings 4
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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!"Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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"How can I help you?" asked Elisha. "Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil."Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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"Go," said Elisha, "borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside."Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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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.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another." But he replied, "There are no more jars." Then the oil stopped flowing.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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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."Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 02 I Am Debtor
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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.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.Read from KJV · 2 Kings 4:8 - Part 01
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And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call the Shunammite woman." And when he had called her, she stood before him,Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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?'" "I have a home among my own people," she replied.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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So he asked, "Then what should be done for her?" "Well, she has no son," Gehazi replied, "and her husband is old."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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"Call her," said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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And Elisha declared, "At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms." "No, my lord," she said. "Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God."Read from KJV · 2 Kings 4:8 - Part 01
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But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.Read from KJV · 2 Kings 4:8 - Part 01
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And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.Read from KJV · 2 Kings 4:8 - Part 02
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"My head! My head!" he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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.Read from NKJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 03 Secrets of Soul Winning
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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."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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"Why would you go to him today?" he replied. "It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath." "Everything is all right," she said.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, "Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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Please run out now to meet her and ask, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?'" And she answered, "Everything is all right."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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Then she said, "Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn't I say, 'Do not deceive me?'"Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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So Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tie up your garment, 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."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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."Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 03 Secrets of Soul Winning
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When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 03 Secrets of Soul Winning
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So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 03 Secrets of Soul Winning
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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.Read from KJV · 2 Kings 4:8 - Part 02
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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.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite woman." So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, "Pick up your son."Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.Read from KJV · Lesser Known Characters 04 Suunammite-7 Qualities
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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."Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
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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.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
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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.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
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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.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
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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. "Give it to the people to eat," said Elisha.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
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But his servant asked, "How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?" "Give it to the people to eat," said Elisha, "for this is what the LORD says: 'They will eat and have some left over.'"Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
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So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 01 Death in the Pot
2 Kings 6
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Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision
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Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there." "Go," said Elisha.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision
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Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." "I will come," he replied.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision
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So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision
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As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. "Oh, my master," he cried out, "it was borrowed!"Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision
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"Where did it fall?" asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision
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"Lift it out," he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.Read from KJV · Lessons From Elisha 04 God's Provision