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Then the king of Israel said, "Alas! For Yahweh has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do I have to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to give them into the hand of Moab."

For thus says Yahweh, ‘You shall not see wind nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, both you and your livestock and your cattle.

Then the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him, so he took with him 700 men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" And she said, "Your servant-woman has nothing in the house except a jar of oil."

Then he said, "Go, ask for vessels for yourself, from those outside, from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few.

Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there."

And he said to him, "Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the commander of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people."

So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son, and her husband is old."

Then she saddled a donkey and said to her young man, "Drive and go; do not hold back the pace of the ride for me unless I tell you."

Then she came to the man of God to the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me."

Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me'?"

Now Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his young man, "Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

Then one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered from it wild gourds filling his cloak and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.

So they poured it out for the men to eat. And it happened that as they were eating of the stew, they cried out and said, "O man of God, there is death in the pot." And they were unable to eat.

But he said, "Now bring flour." He threw it into the pot and said, "Pour it out for the people that they may eat." Then there was no harm in the pot.

And his attendant said, "What, will I give this before one hundred men?" But he said, "Give them to the people that they may eat, for thus says Yahweh, ‘They shall eat and have some left over.'"

So Naaman said, "If not, please let your servant at least be given two mules' load of earth; for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering nor will he sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us.

Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live." So he said, "Go."