# Shunammite Woman - The Book of 2 Kings

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 8 Dec 2023, 12 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 105. Discover the enchanting stories of Elisha, a prophet known for performing miracles. One day, Elisha tells a woman she will have a son, and later, through the grace of God, he brings the woman's son back to life after he passed away. These stories showcase Elisha's special connection with the divine and his commitment to helping others in extraordinary ways. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: See now, I perceive that this is a holy man
[0:03] Speaker 1: of God who passes by us continually. Please, let's make
[0:08] Speaker 1: a little room on the roof. Let's set a bed,
[0:10] Speaker 1: a table, a chair, and a lamp stand for him there.
[0:14] Speaker 1: 2 Kings 4, 9-10 Dear God, thank you for setting
[0:21] Speaker 1: us apart to be holy and righteous like you. And
[0:24] Speaker 1: thank you for making us a part of your forever family.
[0:28] Speaker 1: Help us to live today in a way that allows
[0:31] Speaker 1: others to see you in us. We want to be different,
[0:35] Speaker 1: set apart, and more like you. Thank you, Lord God,
[0:39] Speaker 1: for giving us your Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name I pray.
[0:44] Speaker 2: Amen.
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[1:20] Speaker 2: Shunamite woman. In our last story, Alicia helped a widow,
[1:25] Speaker 2: cleansed food, and made an axe head float. In this story,
[1:30] Speaker 2: Elisha will tell a woman from Shunem that she will
[1:33] Speaker 2: have a son, and then later revive the son from death,
[1:38] Speaker 2: as inspired by 2 Kings.
[1:44] Speaker 1: Hi there, welcome back. This is Joya Sadler for listening
[1:47] Speaker 1: to the Kids Bible in the Air podcast. Today we're
[1:50] Speaker 1: going to spend some time with Elisha and the special
[1:54] Speaker 1: woman he meets along his journey. They will teach us
[1:57] Speaker 1: what it means to live differently, in a good way.
[2:01] Speaker 1: Let's dive in.
[2:05] Speaker 2: There came a day where Elisha went to Shunem, where
[2:08] Speaker 2: there was a powerful woman that asked him to have
[2:11] Speaker 2: a meal with her. So every time that Elisha passed
[2:14] Speaker 2: by her home, he stopped in to eat some food.
[2:18] Speaker 2: Elisha was coming by so much that the woman told
[2:20] Speaker 2: her husband, This is a man of God that comes
[2:24] Speaker 2: by often, who we need to make a room for.
[2:27] Speaker 2: Let's put a bed in there, a table and a chair,
[2:30] Speaker 2: and a lampstand, so that every time he comes, he
[2:33] Speaker 2: can just sleep over. One day, Alicia was staying at
[2:37] Speaker 2: the home of the Shumanite woman and said to Gehazi,
[2:40] Speaker 2: his servant, This woman has blessed us with great hospitality.
[2:45] Speaker 2: Please ask her if we can do anything for her.
[2:48] Speaker 2: Gehazi asked the woman, Is there anything that we can
[2:52] Speaker 2: do for you? No. I am just fine with the
[2:56] Speaker 2: family that I have. Gehazi told Alicia what she said
[3:00] Speaker 2: and they both knew they had to do something for her.
[3:04] Speaker 2: Gehazi then said, oh wait, she doesn't have a son. Gehazi,
[3:09] Speaker 2: go get the woman and have her stand at my doorway.
[3:13] Speaker 2: Alicia said to the woman, about this time next year,
[3:17] Speaker 2: you will have a son. She said, there's no way.
[3:22] Speaker 2: Please do not lead me into some fantasy world But
[3:25] Speaker 2: the woman became pregnant, and just about that same time
[3:29] Speaker 2: next year, she gave birth, just as Alicia had said.
[3:34] Speaker 2: The boy grew strong, until one day, he complained of
[3:37] Speaker 2: having an issue with his head. He went out to
[3:40] Speaker 2: his father, but there was nothing that could be done.
[3:44] Speaker 2: The boy died around noon of that day. The woman
[3:47] Speaker 2: took her lifeless boy and laid him on the bed
[3:50] Speaker 2: where Alicia slept. The woman said to her husband, Give
[3:54] Speaker 2: me one of the servants and a donkey so I
[3:57] Speaker 2: can find the man of God. She put a saddle
[4:00] Speaker 2: on the donkey and found Alicia at Mount Carmel. Alicia
[4:04] Speaker 2: saw the woman from a distance and sent Gehazi after
[4:07] Speaker 2: her to see if she was fine. The woman hid
[4:10] Speaker 2: her distress from Gehazi and continued towards the man of God.
[4:14] Speaker 2: When the woman got to Alicia, she fell down and
[4:16] Speaker 2: grabbed his feet. Gehazi tried to push her off of Alicia,
[4:20] Speaker 2: but Alicia said, Stop. This woman is in distress, and
[4:24] Speaker 2: the Lord has hidden it from me, and I have
[4:27] Speaker 2: to know why. The woman cried out, I told you
[4:31] Speaker 2: not to tell me that I would have a son
[4:33] Speaker 2: unless it was the truth. Elisha said to Gehazi, Take
[4:37] Speaker 2: this staff and place it on the boy's face. I
[4:41] Speaker 2: need you to run quickly and do not talk to
[4:43] Speaker 2: anyone while you are on your way. The woman said
[4:46] Speaker 2: to Elisha, As long as the Lord lives and as
[4:49] Speaker 2: long as you live, I will not leave you. Alicia
[4:52] Speaker 2: then followed the woman back to her house. Yehazi tried
[4:56] Speaker 2: to bring the boy back to life by placing the
[4:58] Speaker 2: staff on the face of the boy, but nothing happened.
[5:01] Speaker 2: When Alicia and the woman came into the house and
[5:03] Speaker 2: the boy was still dead on the bed, Alicia got
[5:06] Speaker 2: in the room and shut the door to keep the
[5:08] Speaker 2: others out. He prayed to the Lord and laid on
[5:12] Speaker 2: top of the body. He stretched his body out over
[5:15] Speaker 2: the boy with his eyes over the eyes of the boy,
[5:18] Speaker 2: his mouth over the mouth of the boy, and his
[5:20] Speaker 2: hands over the hands of the boy. boy became warm
[5:24] Speaker 2: but he was still not breathing alicia stood back up
[5:28] Speaker 2: and began pacing the room and then he laid on
[5:31] Speaker 2: the boy again all of a sudden the boy sneezed
[5:35] Speaker 2: seven times and started breathing again alicia called out to
[5:39] Speaker 2: ghazi tell the woman to get her son the woman
[5:43] Speaker 2: came into the room and fell at the feet of
[5:46] Speaker 2: alicia she then picked up her son and went out
[5:50] Speaker 2: of the room.
[5:57] Speaker 1: Wow, don't you love hearing stories of miracles? Our God
[6:01] Speaker 1: is so powerful. He really can do anything he chooses to.
[6:06] Speaker 1: As today's story opens, we meet a Shunammite woman. That
[6:11] Speaker 1: just means she was a woman and she was from
[6:14] Speaker 1: a place called Shunamm. This woman noticed something special about Elisha.
[6:20] Speaker 1: He seemed different. The Bible tells us that she perceived
[6:24] Speaker 1: that he was a holy man of God. In other words,
[6:28] Speaker 1: she had a strong feeling that God was with Elijah
[6:32] Speaker 1: and that he did what was right. Have you ever
[6:35] Speaker 1: noticed someone like that? Maybe it's a friend, a teacher,
[6:39] Speaker 1: a pastor, or even someone in your family. And there's
[6:43] Speaker 1: just something different about them. That person has a kindness
[6:47] Speaker 1: and a spirit about them that reminds you of Jesus.
[6:51] Speaker 1: Or better yet, maybe people see you that way. Wouldn't
[6:55] Speaker 1: it be great if someone told you, there's just something
[6:58] Speaker 1: different about you. I can see that you act the
[7:01] Speaker 1: way Jesus acts and loves others the way God does.
[7:06] Speaker 1: The older you get, the more you will come across
[7:08] Speaker 1: people who don't act very much like Christ. And sometimes
[7:12] Speaker 1: it's easy to start acting the way they do because
[7:16] Speaker 1: you just get used to seeing it every day. Lying,
[7:21] Speaker 1: saying words that are not holy, Making fun of someone
[7:25] Speaker 1: different from you, disobeying, cheating, are all just a few
[7:30] Speaker 1: examples of things we see others do and become tempted
[7:34] Speaker 1: to do ourselves. But we can learn something here from Elijah.
[7:39] Speaker 1: We can be different. We can act a whole other way.
[7:43] Speaker 1: A way that causes others to notice. In 1 Peter 2,
[7:48] Speaker 1: Peter says that yes, Some people will be disobedient and
[7:54] Speaker 1: not honor God. But he says we are called to
[7:58] Speaker 1: be different. He says we are part of God's royal family,
[8:03] Speaker 1: children of the one true king. We are set apart
[8:08] Speaker 1: by God to live holy and to do good things. Okay,
[8:12] Speaker 1: back to Elisha. This Shonamite woman offered Elisha a place
[8:17] Speaker 1: to stay and provided everything he needed. She had the
[8:22] Speaker 1: money to do this and was willing to spend it generously.
[8:26] Speaker 1: Not only can we learn something today from Elisha on
[8:30] Speaker 1: how to live set apart and different, but we learn
[8:34] Speaker 1: something from this woman too. God blessed her with money
[8:38] Speaker 1: and resources, and instead of keeping them all to herself,
[8:42] Speaker 1: she helped a man she knew was from God. So actually,
[8:45] Speaker 1: she was helping God. And did you know you can
[8:49] Speaker 1: do the same? There are all kinds of people around
[8:53] Speaker 1: you serving God. Some are teachers, some work at the church,
[8:58] Speaker 1: and some are even missionaries in faraway countries. And when
[9:02] Speaker 1: we help those people by serving with them or giving
[9:06] Speaker 1: them the things they need, it's like we join their
[9:09] Speaker 1: team and serve God together. Can you think of someone
[9:13] Speaker 1: you know who serves God for an actual job? Is
[9:17] Speaker 1: there something you can do to help them today? Here
[9:21] Speaker 1: are some ideas. Write them an encouraging note with a
[9:24] Speaker 1: Bible verse. Pray for their family and their protection. Offer
[9:29] Speaker 1: to help them somehow. Give them money or something they
[9:33] Speaker 1: may need. When you do, it will be like a
[9:36] Speaker 1: special gift you're giving God. Just like the Shunammite woman. Okay,
[9:42] Speaker 1: the rest of the story is pretty amazing. Because this
[9:47] Speaker 1: woman was so kind to Elisha, He wanted to do
[9:52] Speaker 1: something kind for her too. He asked God to give
[9:55] Speaker 1: her a son, something she wanted more than anything in
[9:59] Speaker 1: the world. But when her son was very sick, probably
[10:03] Speaker 1: from all the heat in the fields, he died. And
[10:07] Speaker 1: the woman knew just where to go. Elisha prayed and
[10:11] Speaker 1: prayed and then prayed some more. And finally, God brought
[10:15] Speaker 1: her son back to life. It's about as happy an
[10:19] Speaker 1: ending as you can get. That's all for today. Thanks
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[10:28] Speaker 1: another pretty cool miracle. But for now, remember this. The
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