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CHAPTER 5
“A GREAT WOMAN”
THE SHUNAMMITE
And now we come to my favorite, the Shu-
nammite Woman. The Bible calls her, “a great
woman” (2 Kings 4:8). I believe God’s Word
describes her as “great” for one thing: she had
such a great understanding of the heart of
God and His desire to see His people whole.
She perceived that Elisha was a holy man
of God, and she told her husband they should
build him a prophet’s chamber for him to rest
with them when he passed their way. She re-
ceived “the prophet’s reward,” which is the
ministry of a prophet, when Elisha prophesied
to the barren woman she would have a son.
Years later as the grown son worked with
his father in the field, he collapsed, perhaps
from a sun stroke. The father, knowing his
wife’s faith, had the son brought to his mother.
He lay in her lap until noon and then he died.
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