A wealthy women of Shunem furnishes a guest room for Elisha. Gehazi, Elisha’s servant, notes that she has no son and her husband is old. Elisha promises her a son. Then, the son stricken with a stroke dies in his mother’s arms. She sets out for Mount Carmel. Elisha sends his servant with his magic staff to lay on the face of the corpse. When it does not work Elisha goes to the chamber, prays to Yahweh and successfully performs the life giving rite. At Gilgal a large pot of vegetables is being cooked, but poisonous gourds are added. Elisha throws in some good meal and the food becomes edible. A man from Baalshalishah brings twenty loaves of barley as the first fruits offering which Elisha turns into enough food for a hundred men, a story parallel to the new testament story of the multiplication of loaves and fishes. Naaman, a military commander of Damascus in high favor with his master, the king of Syria, is a leper. An Israelite slave girl mentions that a prophet in Samaria can cure the leprosy. Naaman seeks out the king of Israel with gifts and the request for cure. When Elisha hears the story he orders the leper to come to him. Elisha tells him to bathe seven times in the Jordan. The muddy Jordan? He carries out the prescription and is healed. Naaman turns to Yahweh worship except for state occasions when he has to worship Rimmon, the Syrian god. Elisha refuses gifts but Gehazi does not. When Elisha finds out Gehazi is afflicted with leprosy.
A wealthy women of Shunem furnishes a guest room for Elisha. Gehazi, Elisha’s servant, notes that she has no son and her husband is old. Elisha promises her a son. Then, the son stricken with a stroke dies in his mother’s arms. She sets out for Mount Carmel. Elisha sends his servant with his magic staff to lay on the face of the corpse. When it does not work Elisha goes to the chamber, prays to Yahweh and successfully performs the life giving rite. At Gilgal a large pot of vegetables is being cooked, but poisonous gourds are added. Elisha throws in some good meal and the food becomes edible. A man from Baalshalishah brings twenty loaves of barley as the first fruits offering which Elisha turns into enough food for a hundred men, a story parallel to the new testament story of the multiplication of loaves and fishes. Naaman, a military commander of Damascus in high favor with his master, the king of Syria, is a leper. An Israelite slave girl mentions that a prophet in Samaria can cure the leprosy. Naaman seeks out the king of Israel with gifts and the request for cure. When Elisha hears the story he orders the leper to come to him. Elisha tells him to bathe seven times in the Jordan. The muddy Jordan? He carries out the prescription and is healed. Naaman turns to Yahweh worship except for state occasions when he has to worship Rimmon, the Syrian god. Elisha refuses gifts but Gehazi does not. When Elisha finds out Gehazi is afflicted with leprosy.
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