Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."

Please run now to meet her, and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" She answered, "It is well."

And she went and told her husband, saying, "Thus and thus sayeth the maid that is out of the land of Israel."