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instance, when the Assyrians surrounded the wealthy Shunammite woman. The
the Israelites, he asked God to blind woman, with her husband, made a room
their eyes and brought them to Samaria. for Elisha to rest when he visited them.
In addition, when the king wanted to The woman was childless; thus, Elisha
kill them, he courageously pleaded with asked his servant Gehazi what to do to
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him not to kill the war captives (2 Kings the woman, and Gehazi said to Elisha
6:17-20). that she had no son. Then, Elisha ordered
Gehazi to call her, and he courageously
Prophet Elisha was well known through said to her, “This time next year you
his miracles, which introduced him to his will have a son”, and she had it. But the
society to the extent that his reputation time came when the child died, and the
grew; he emerged as the solution for woman went to Elisha and told him the
the outcry of his time. The following problem. Then Elisha raised the child to
are some of his miracles showing how life again (2 Kings 4:8-37).
courageously he addressed the problems Three: He cleansed the spoiled pottage.
that faced the society in his time:
When there was a famine in Gilgal,
One: The Widow’s oil increased. Prophet Elisha ordered his servants to
One wife of the sons of the prophets cried boil pottage for the sons of the prophets
to Elisha when the debtor of her husband who were there. In the collection of
wanted to take her two sons as slaves for herbs, one of the servants collected the
the payment of the debt. Elisha asked wild gourds and mixed them into the
her what she had. She said, “Nothing pot of pottage without knowing what
except a jar of oil.” Then, Elisha ordered they were, poisoning the pottage. When
her to borrow as many empty vessels as they were eating the pottage, the sons of
she could from her neighbours, enter her the prophets cried out, “O man of God,
house, close the door and pour the olive there is death in the pot!” Then, Elisha
oil from the small jug into the empty courageously asked for a meal, threw it
vessels borrowed. Miraculously, olive into the pot, and said, “Pour out for the
old filled all the vessels. Prophet Elisha men, that they may eat,” and there was
ordered the widow, “Sell the oil and no harm (2 Kings 4:38-41).
pay the debts, and there will be enough Four: He healed Naaman’s leprosy.
money left over for you and your sons to
live on” (2 Kings 4:1-7). Naaman was a commander of the army
of the King of Syria and was a man
Two: The Shunammite woman of courage but was a leper. On one of
conceived by the word of God. their raids, he had carried out one of
In his journeys, Prophet Elisha the Israeli little maids. When she saw
sometimes passed through the house of him in his leprosy, she told her mistress

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