One day Elisha went t the town of Shumem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to come to her home for a meal. After that whenever he passed by that way, he would stop there for something to ear.
She said to her husband, “I am sure this man who stops in from time to time is a holy man of God. Let’s build a small room for him on the roof and furnish it with a bed, table, a chair, and a lamp. Then he will have a place to stay whenever he comes by.”
One day Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to this upper room to rest. He said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the woman from Shumen I want to speak to her.” When she appeared, Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘We appreciate the kind concern you have shone us. What can we do for you? Can we put in a good word for you to the king or to the commander of the army?”
“No, she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”
Later Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can we do for her?”
Gehazi replied, “She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is an old man.”
“Call her back again,”Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her, as she stood in the doorway, “Next year as this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”
“No, my lord,” she cried, “O man of God don’t deceive me and get my hops up like that.”
But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elishas had said. (vv. 8-17, NLT)