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She recognized Elisha as a holy man of God and urged her husband to make a small upper room for him with basic furnishings. Elisha asked what could be done for her, and he promised that about that time next year she would embrace a son. The promise was fulfilled as she conceived and bore a son at the stated time (2 Kings 4:8–17).
8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
9She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
10Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.
11It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.
12He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.
13He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
14He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, Most assuredly she has no son, and her husband is old.
15He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
16He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.