Editing Books of Kings (section)

=====Some miracles of Elisha (4:1–6:7)=====
Elisha meets a [[widow]] whose creditors are threatening to take her two sons into [[slavery]] as payment. When he finds out the only other thing she has is a small jar of olive oil, he tells her to go and ask all her neighbours for jars. He tells her to pour oil into the jars, and it holds out until every jar is filled. Elisha finally tells her to sell the oil, pay the creditors and live off the rest. He then moves on to [[Shunem]], where a [[Woman of Shunem|woman]] invites him to eat and soon decides to build a room for use whenever he passes through.

His servant [[Gehazi]] informs him that she has no son, so Elisha tells her that she will have [[Raising of the son of the woman of Shunem|a child]] within a year, as payment for her kindness. One day, the child is helping his father's reapers when he complains of a pain in his head. He is returned to his mother and dies. His mother therefore seeks out Elisha, whom she meets at Mount Carmel. He tells Gehazi to quickly make his way to the house and lay his staff on the boy's face. When Elisha gets there with the woman, Gehazi informs him that this has not worked.

Elisha prays, paces, and lays himself on the boy, who then awakens. Elisha continues on to Gilgal, where a [[famine]] is raging. Seeking to help the local prophets, he tells his servant to cook a stew. One of the prophets inadvertently adds some poisonous berries to the pot, but Elisha adds some [[flour]], negating the poison. A man comes from [[Shalisha|Baal-Shalish]] with twenty loaves of bread. Elisha uses them to miraculously feed the hundred people present.

An Aramean general named [[Naaman]] has [[leprosy]]. He hears of Elisha from an Israelite slave-girl and receives permission from the king to travel in an attempt to have his leprosy cured. He travels first to the king of Israel, but is eventually called by Elisha, who sends a messenger to tell him to wash seven times in the Jordan. He does what Elisha told him to and his leprosy is cured. Naaman offers Elisha a gift of thanks, but Elisha refuses. Naaman contents himself with taking earth back to Damascus in order to build an altar to God and asking God's forgiveness for when he has to participate in Aramean religious rituals when accompanying the king. As Naaman is leaving Gehazi catches up with him and lies about prophets arriving so that at least he can get a gift. As punishment for this, Elisha curses him to become leprous.

Several other prophets begin complaining that their meeting place with Elisha is too small, so he agrees to allow them to build a new one on the banks of the Jordan. During the building, someone's borrowed axehead falls in the river but miraculously floats.