Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.

Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.