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Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat food.

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

So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

Then Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the lad's face, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and told him, "The lad has not awakened."

So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the LORD.

He called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, "Take up your son."

So they poured it out for the men to eat. And 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.

So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha.

"Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.

So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.

When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, "Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please take a present from your servant now."

He said to him, "Go in peace." So he departed from him some distance.

So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, "Is all well?"

"Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

"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."

So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

He said, "Take it up for yourself." So he put out his hand and took it.

The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice.

So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him." And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."