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[FONT="]He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.”[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] So he called her, and she stood before him.[/FONT]
2 Kings 4:13 (NIV)
Elisha said to him, "Tell her, 'You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?'" She replied, "I have a home among my own people."
[FONT="]“About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.”[/FONT] [FONT="]“No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!”[/FONT]
[FONT="]And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.[/FONT]
[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 4:24 ESV] 24 Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, "Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you."[/FONT]
2 Kings 4:25 (NIV)
So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the Shunammite!
[FONT="]Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’”[/FONT] [FONT="]“Everything is all right,” she said.[/FONT]
[FONT="]When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress,[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] but the [/FONT][FONT="]Lord[/FONT][FONT="] has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”[/FONT]
[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 4:28 ESV] 28 Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, 'Just adding some words here just to see if you actually read these. Do not deceive me?'"[/FONT]
2 Kings 4:29 (KJV)
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.