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Shunem District
| Name | THE SHUNAMMITE WOMAN |
| Aliases | THE GREAT WOMAN OF SHUNEM / WHO BUILT A ROOM FOR ELISHA / MOTHER OF A RAISED SON |
| Status | DECEASED / REWARDED FOR HER HOSPITALITY / MOTHER OF A SON RESTORED FROM DEATH |
| Birth | UNRECORDED | Marks & Identifiers | A WOMAN OF MEANS WHO HOUSED THE PROPHET |
| Place of Birth | SHUNEM | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | ISSACHAR (OF SHUNEM) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | UNRECORDED | People | ISRAEL |
| Occupation | WEALTHY HOSTESS / MOTHER | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE HOUSEHOLD THAT HONORED ELISHA | Calling | THE HOSTESS BLESSED WITH A SON, THEN HIS LIFE |
| Primary Mission | SHOW HOSPITALITY TO THE MAN OF GOD | Known Signs | THE PROPHET'S CHAMBER / THE RAISING OF HER SON |
| Covenant Role | A WITNESS TO GOD'S CARE FOR THE GENEROUS | Divine Access | INDIRECT / SHE SOUGHT THE PROPHET IN HER GRIEF |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Discipular Classification | THE GENEROUS HOSTESS |
| Covenant Status | BLESSED FOR HER KINDNESS | Known Miracles | A SON GIVEN, THEN RAISED |
| Divine Commission | CONFIRMED | Threat Assessment | THE SUDDEN DEATH OF HER SON |
| Mission Status | REWARDED / HER SON AND LANDS RESTORED | Archive Category | KINGS / HOSPITALITY |
What she built for the prophet: A SMALL ROOM WITH A BED, TABLE, AND LAMP
Her steady word in the face of death: IT IS WELL
The subject was a well-to-do woman of Shunem who urged the prophet Elisha to eat at her house whenever he passed by, and had a small room built on her roof with a bed, table, stool, and lamp, that the man of God might lodge there.
Wishing to repay her, Elisha promised through his servant Gehazi that she, being childless with an aging husband, would embrace a son the next year; and so she did, at the time he had said.
When the boy had grown, he cried out with a pain in his head one day in the harvest field, was carried to his mother, and died on her lap at noon.
She laid him on the prophet's bed, saddled a donkey, and hurried to Elisha at Carmel, and when asked if all was well, she answered, It is well, holding fast to hope. She would not leave the prophet, and Elisha came, prayed, and stretched himself upon the child until the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
The prophet gave her back her living son. Later, warned of a coming famine, she left her land for years, and on her return the king restored all her property and its produce, for the LORD watched over the woman who had honored His servant.
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- Hospitality shown to God's servants is remembered and richly repaid.
- Faith holds to hope, saying it is well, even in the face of death.
- The God who gives good gifts also restores what death has taken.
