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A Woman in Shunem Gives Elisha a Room

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where an important woman lived. She asked Elisha to stop and eat at her house. So every time Elisha went through that place, he stopped there to eat.

The woman said to her husband, “Look, I can see that Elisha is a holy man of God. He passes by our house all the time. 10 Please, let’s make a little room on the roof[a] for him. Let’s put a bed in this room and a table, a chair, and a lampstand. Then when he comes to our house, he can have this room for himself.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:10 room on the roof In ancient Israel, houses had flat roofs that were used as an extra room.

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