WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.267 --> 00:00:04.647 Day 200 and 29 00:00:05.071 --> 00:00:09.811 one day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elijah and 00:00:09.811 --> 00:00:15.901 cried out, my husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. 00:00:16.231 --> 00:00:20.761 But now a creditor has come threatening to take my two sons as slaves. 00:00:21.601 --> 00:00:22.771 What can I do to help you? 00:00:23.011 --> 00:00:26.431 Elisha asked, tell me, what do you have in the house? 00:00:27.076 --> 00:00:29.986 Nothing at all except a flask of olive oil. 00:00:30.226 --> 00:00:35.506 She replied, and Elisha said, borrow as many empty jars as you 00:00:35.511 --> 00:00:37.306 can from your friends and neighbors. 00:00:37.966 --> 00:00:41.686 Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. 00:00:42.226 --> 00:00:46.696 Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each 00:00:46.696 --> 00:00:48.286 one aside when it is filled. 00:00:49.216 --> 00:00:53.656 So she did, as she was told, her sons kept bringing jars to her 00:00:53.896 --> 00:00:55.906 and she filled one after another. 00:00:56.731 --> 00:00:57.241 Soon. 00:00:57.511 --> 00:00:59.671 Every container was full to the brim. 00:01:00.631 --> 00:01:01.741 Bring me another jar. 00:01:01.831 --> 00:01:05.011 She said to one of her sons, there aren't anymore. 00:01:05.161 --> 00:01:05.821 He told her. 00:01:06.421 --> 00:01:08.701 And then the olive oil stopped flowing. 00:01:09.721 --> 00:01:14.251 When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, now sell the 00:01:14.251 --> 00:01:20.101 olive oil and pay your debts and you and your sons can live on what is left over. 00:01:22.201 --> 00:01:24.571 One day, Elisha went to the town of Shun. 00:01:25.351 --> 00:01:29.491 A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to come to her home for a meal. 00:01:30.031 --> 00:01:34.291 After that, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for something to eat. 00:01:35.131 --> 00:01:39.301 She said to her husband, I am sure this man who stops in from 00:01:39.301 --> 00:01:41.611 time to time is a holy man of God. 00:01:42.301 --> 00:01:45.691 God, let's build a small room for him on the roof and furnish it with 00:01:45.691 --> 00:01:48.361 a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. 00:01:49.141 --> 00:01:51.661 Then he will have a place to stay whenever he comes by. 00:01:52.561 --> 00:01:57.241 One day, Elisha returned to s Shnu and he went up to this upper room to rest. 00:01:58.051 --> 00:02:03.691 He said to his servant, Gaza, tell the woman from Suna, I wanna speak to her. 00:02:04.891 --> 00:02:10.261 When she appeared, Elisha said to Gaza, tell her we appreciate the 00:02:10.261 --> 00:02:11.881 kind concern you have shown us. 00:02:12.331 --> 00:02:13.351 What can we do for you? 00:02:14.131 --> 00:02:17.911 Can we put in a good word for you to the king or to the commander of the army? 00:02:18.796 --> 00:02:19.186 No. 00:02:19.276 --> 00:02:22.006 She replied, my family takes good care of me. 00:02:23.056 --> 00:02:27.226 Later, Elisha asked Za, what can we do for her? 00:02:28.426 --> 00:02:33.466 Za replied, she doesn't have a son and her husband is an old man. 00:02:34.276 --> 00:02:35.326 Call her back again. 00:02:35.476 --> 00:02:40.336 Elisha told him when the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the 00:02:40.336 --> 00:02:45.526 doorway, next year at this time, you will be holding a son in your arms. 00:02:46.261 --> 00:02:48.331 No, my Lord, she cried. 00:02:48.631 --> 00:02:49.831 Oh man of God. 00:02:49.831 --> 00:02:52.561 Don't deceive me and get my hopes up like that. 00:02:53.311 --> 00:02:57.811 But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant, and at that 00:02:57.811 --> 00:03:02.821 time, the following year, she had a son just as Eisha had said. 00:03:03.871 --> 00:03:08.191 One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father who 00:03:08.191 --> 00:03:09.631 was working with the harvesters. 00:03:10.561 --> 00:03:11.911 Suddenly he cried out. 00:03:12.541 --> 00:03:13.591 My head hurts. 00:03:13.951 --> 00:03:15.091 My head hurts. 00:03:15.826 --> 00:03:19.216 His father said to one of the servants, carry him home to his mother. 00:03:19.876 --> 00:03:23.566 So the servant took him home and his mother held him on her lap. 00:03:24.586 --> 00:03:27.136 But around noontime, he died. 00:03:28.246 --> 00:03:31.996 She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then 00:03:31.996 --> 00:03:33.796 shut the door and left him there. 00:03:35.026 --> 00:03:38.896 She sent a message to her husband, send one of the servants and a 00:03:38.896 --> 00:03:42.886 donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back. 00:03:43.636 --> 00:03:44.596 Why go today? 00:03:44.656 --> 00:03:49.636 He asked, it is neither a new Moon festival nor a Sabbath, but 00:03:49.636 --> 00:03:51.886 she said it will be all right. 00:03:52.726 --> 00:03:56.476 So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, hurry, don't 00:03:56.476 --> 00:03:58.126 slow down unless I tell you to. 00:03:59.206 --> 00:04:03.646 As she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance. 00:04:04.516 --> 00:04:10.486 He said to Gaza, look, The woman from Suna is coming run out to meet her 00:04:10.486 --> 00:04:14.476 and ask her, is everything all right with you, your husband and your child? 00:04:15.286 --> 00:04:19.306 Yes, the woman told Gaza everything is fine. 00:04:20.176 --> 00:04:24.226 But when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground 00:04:24.231 --> 00:04:26.536 before him and caught hold of his feet. 00:04:27.946 --> 00:04:31.996 Je eye began to push her away, but the man of God said, leave her alone. 00:04:32.626 --> 00:04:36.526 She is deeply troubled, but the Lord has not told me what it is. 00:04:37.411 --> 00:04:41.311 Then she said, did I ask you for a son, my Lord? 00:04:41.971 --> 00:04:45.301 And didn't I say Don't deceive me and get my hopes up? 00:04:46.561 --> 00:04:49.741 Then Elisha said to Gaza, get ready to travel. 00:04:50.191 --> 00:04:51.721 Take my staff and go. 00:04:52.081 --> 00:04:53.971 Don't talk to anyone along the way. 00:04:54.541 --> 00:04:57.751 Go quickly and lay the staff on the child's face. 00:04:58.621 --> 00:05:03.481 But the boy's mother said, as surely as the Lord lives, and you yourself live, 00:05:04.051 --> 00:05:06.451 I won't go home unless you go with me. 00:05:07.096 --> 00:05:09.196 So Elisha returned with her. 00:05:10.216 --> 00:05:15.376 Gaza hurried on ahead and laid the staff on the child's face, but nothing happened. 00:05:15.976 --> 00:05:17.386 There was no sign of life. 00:05:17.806 --> 00:05:22.126 He returned to meet Elisha and told him the child is still dead. 00:05:22.996 --> 00:05:28.036 When Elisha arrived, the child was indeed dead, lying there on the prophet's bed. 00:05:28.996 --> 00:05:33.406 He went in alone and shut the door behind him and prayed to the Lord. 00:05:33.916 --> 00:05:38.326 Then he laid down on the child's body, placing his mouth on the child's 00:05:38.326 --> 00:05:42.886 mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. 00:05:43.396 --> 00:05:48.376 And as he stretched out on him, the child's body began to grow warm again. 00:05:49.426 --> 00:05:54.736 Elijah got up, walked back and forth across the room once, and then stretched 00:05:54.741 --> 00:05:56.446 himself out again on the child. 00:05:57.016 --> 00:06:01.516 This time the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. 00:06:02.371 --> 00:06:03.901 Then Elisha summoned Gaza. 00:06:04.891 --> 00:06:06.061 Call the child's mother. 00:06:06.121 --> 00:06:11.461 He said, and when she came in, Elisha said, here, take your son. 00:06:12.271 --> 00:06:17.011 She fell at his feet and bowed before him, overwhelmed with gratitude. 00:06:17.351 --> 00:06:21.571 Then she took her son in her arms and carried him downstairs. 00:06:23.941 --> 00:06:28.471 Elisha now returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in the land. 00:06:29.461 --> 00:06:33.721 One day, as the group of prophets was seated before him, he said to his servant, 00:06:34.231 --> 00:06:37.741 put a large pot on the fire and make some stew for the rest of the group. 00:06:38.341 --> 00:06:42.091 One of the young men went out into the field to gather herbs and came back 00:06:42.091 --> 00:06:43.921 with a pocket full of wild gourds. 00:06:44.551 --> 00:06:48.841 He shredded them and put them into the pot without realizing they were poisonous. 00:06:49.591 --> 00:06:53.131 Some of the stew was served to the men, but after they had eaten a 00:06:53.131 --> 00:06:57.361 bite or two, they cried out, man of God, there's poison in this stew. 00:06:58.066 --> 00:06:59.086 So they would not eat it. 00:06:59.896 --> 00:07:02.206 Elisha said, bring me some flour. 00:07:02.986 --> 00:07:06.766 Then he threw it into the pot and said, now it's all right. 00:07:07.066 --> 00:07:07.936 Go ahead and eat. 00:07:08.746 --> 00:07:10.246 And then it did not harm them. 00:07:12.196 --> 00:07:17.386 One day, a man from Bale shisha brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain 00:07:17.686 --> 00:07:21.406 and 20 loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. 00:07:22.156 --> 00:07:25.216 Elisha said, give it to the people so they can eat. 00:07:26.026 --> 00:07:32.236 What his servant exclaimed feed a hundred people with only this, but Elisha 00:07:32.236 --> 00:07:37.246 repeated, give it to the people so they can eat for this is what the Lord says. 00:07:37.846 --> 00:07:41.086 Everyone will eat and there will even be some leftover. 00:07:41.806 --> 00:07:46.216 And when they gave it to the people, there was plenty for all and some left 00:07:46.216 --> 00:07:48.406 over just as the Lord had promised. 00:07:49.966 --> 00:07:54.166 The King of Aram had great admiration for Neiman the commander of his 00:07:54.166 --> 00:07:58.756 army, because through him, the Lord had given Aram great victories. 00:07:59.686 --> 00:08:03.706 But though Neiman was a mighty warrior, he suffered from leprosy. 00:08:04.486 --> 00:08:09.376 At this time, AIAN Raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among their 00:08:09.376 --> 00:08:13.546 captives was a young girl who had been given to Neiman's wife as a maid. 00:08:14.236 --> 00:08:17.776 One day the girl said to her mistress, I wish my master would 00:08:17.776 --> 00:08:19.516 go to see the prophet in Samaria. 00:08:19.876 --> 00:08:21.616 He would heal him of his leprosy. 00:08:22.276 --> 00:08:27.226 So Neman told the king what the young girl from Israel had said, go and visit 00:08:27.226 --> 00:08:31.756 the prophet, the King of Aram told him, I will send a letter of introduction 00:08:31.756 --> 00:08:33.526 for you to take to the King of Israel. 00:08:34.516 --> 00:08:41.626 So Naamen started out carrying as gifts, 750 pounds of silver, 150 pounds 00:08:41.626 --> 00:08:43.756 of gold, and 10 sets of clothing. 00:08:44.446 --> 00:08:47.716 The letter to the King of Israel said, With this letter, 00:08:47.776 --> 00:08:49.336 I present my servant Neiman. 00:08:50.056 --> 00:08:51.946 I want you to heal him of his leprosy. 00:08:52.696 --> 00:08:55.666 When the King of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes in 00:08:55.666 --> 00:09:01.126 dismay and said, am I God that I can give life and take it away? 00:09:01.396 --> 00:09:04.546 Why is this man asking me to heal someone with leprosy? 00:09:05.116 --> 00:09:07.546 I can see that he's just trying to pick a fight with me. 00:09:08.506 --> 00:09:11.956 But when Elisha, the man of God, heard that the King of Israel 00:09:11.956 --> 00:09:15.466 had torn his clothes in dismay, he sent this message to him. 00:09:16.066 --> 00:09:17.116 Why are you so upset? 00:09:17.566 --> 00:09:22.456 Send Neman to me and he will learn that there is a true prophet here in Israel. 00:09:23.866 --> 00:09:27.676 So Neman went with his horses and chariots and waited at the door of 00:09:27.676 --> 00:09:32.656 Elisha's house, but Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message. 00:09:33.346 --> 00:09:36.226 Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. 00:09:36.736 --> 00:09:40.156 Then your skin will be restored and you will be healed of your leprosy. 00:09:40.996 --> 00:09:44.116 But Neman became angry and stocked away. 00:09:44.986 --> 00:09:47.296 I thought he would certainly come out to meet me. 00:09:47.476 --> 00:09:52.396 He said, I expected him to wave his hand over the leprosy and call on the 00:09:52.396 --> 00:09:54.736 name of the Lord his God, and heal me. 00:09:55.456 --> 00:10:00.136 Aren't the rivers of Damascus, the Abna and the far par better 00:10:00.136 --> 00:10:01.996 than any of the rivers of Israel? 00:10:02.476 --> 00:10:04.636 Why shouldn't I wash in them and be healed? 00:10:05.266 --> 00:10:09.976 So Neman turned and went away in a rage, but his officers tried 00:10:09.976 --> 00:10:12.496 to reason with him and said, sir. 00:10:13.036 --> 00:10:16.006 If the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, 00:10:16.516 --> 00:10:17.476 wouldn't you have done it? 00:10:18.346 --> 00:10:23.596 So you should certainly obey him when he says, simply go and wash and be cured. 00:10:24.826 --> 00:10:30.046 So Naamen went down to the Jordan River and dipped himself seven times as the 00:10:30.046 --> 00:10:35.926 man of God had instructed him and his skin became as healthy as the skin 00:10:35.926 --> 00:10:38.656 of a young child, and he was healed. 00:10:39.676 --> 00:10:43.576 Then Neman and his entire party went back to find the man of God. 00:10:44.266 --> 00:10:49.606 They stood before him and Neman said, now I know that there is no God 00:10:49.606 --> 00:10:51.736 in all the world except in Israel. 00:10:52.336 --> 00:10:54.556 So please accept a gift from your servant. 00:10:55.576 --> 00:10:59.596 But Elisha replied, as surely as the Lord lives whom I serve, 00:10:59.986 --> 00:11:01.636 I will not accept any gifts. 00:11:02.776 --> 00:11:06.646 And though Naomi and urged him to take the gift, Elisha refused. 00:11:07.726 --> 00:11:12.406 Then Naman said, all right, but please allow me to load two of my 00:11:12.406 --> 00:11:16.426 mules with Earth from this place, and I will take it back home with me. 00:11:16.876 --> 00:11:21.406 From now on, I will never again offer burnt offerings or sacrifices 00:11:21.526 --> 00:11:23.506 to any other God except the Lord. 00:11:24.286 --> 00:11:27.286 How may the Lord pardon me in this one thing? 00:11:28.036 --> 00:11:31.786 When my master, the king goes into the temple of the God, RI to 00:11:31.786 --> 00:11:34.126 worship there and leans on my arm. 00:11:34.831 --> 00:11:37.441 May the Lord pardon me when I bow too. 00:11:38.551 --> 00:11:40.381 Go in peace, Elisha said. 00:11:40.801 --> 00:11:46.381 So Neiman started home again, but Za the servant of Elisha, the man of 00:11:46.386 --> 00:11:51.721 God, said to himself, my master should not have let this air Amenan get away 00:11:51.871 --> 00:11:53.491 without accepting any of his gifts. 00:11:54.181 --> 00:11:58.891 As surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after him and get something from him. 00:11:59.911 --> 00:12:01.951 So Gaza set off after Neiman. 00:12:03.016 --> 00:12:06.736 When Na in saw Gaza running after him, he climbed down from his 00:12:06.736 --> 00:12:08.176 chariot and went to meet him. 00:12:08.806 --> 00:12:09.826 Is everything all right? 00:12:09.976 --> 00:12:10.756 Naamen asked? 00:12:11.326 --> 00:12:12.736 Yes, Jeza said. 00:12:13.246 --> 00:12:17.266 But my master has sent me to tell you that two young prophets from the hill 00:12:17.266 --> 00:12:19.666 country of Raim have just arrived. 00:12:20.266 --> 00:12:24.586 He would like 75 pounds of silver and two sets of clothing to give to them. 00:12:25.336 --> 00:12:29.956 By all means, take twice as much silver, Naomi, and insisted he 00:12:29.961 --> 00:12:31.516 gave him two sets of clothing. 00:12:31.891 --> 00:12:35.371 Tied up the money in two bags and sent two of his servants 00:12:35.371 --> 00:12:36.571 to carry the gifts for Gaza. 00:12:37.531 --> 00:12:41.041 But when they arrived at the Citadel, Gaza took the gifts from 00:12:41.041 --> 00:12:43.021 the servants and sent the men back. 00:12:43.711 --> 00:12:46.831 Then he went and hid the gifts inside the house. 00:12:47.851 --> 00:12:52.211 When he went into his master, Elijah asked him, where have you been? 00:12:52.561 --> 00:12:52.851 Gaza? 00:12:53.551 --> 00:12:54.691 I haven't been anywhere. 00:12:54.781 --> 00:13:00.196 He replied, But Elisha asked him, don't you realize that I was there 00:13:00.196 --> 00:13:03.916 in spirit when Neman stepped down from his chariot to meet you? 00:13:04.576 --> 00:13:08.626 Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and 00:13:08.631 --> 00:13:12.436 vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants? 00:13:13.276 --> 00:13:16.936 Because you have done this, you and your descendants will suffer 00:13:16.936 --> 00:13:18.826 from ne amen's leprosy forever. 00:13:19.726 --> 00:13:23.746 When Gaza left the room, he was covered with leprosy. 00:13:24.496 --> 00:13:26.176 His skin was wide as snow. 00:13:28.096 --> 00:13:33.316 One day the group of prophets came to Elisha and told him, as you can see, this 00:13:33.316 --> 00:13:35.566 place where we meet with you is too small. 00:13:36.106 --> 00:13:39.946 Let's go down to the Jordan River where there are plenty of logs there. 00:13:39.946 --> 00:13:41.746 We can build a new place for us to meet. 00:13:42.406 --> 00:13:42.916 All right. 00:13:43.006 --> 00:13:45.736 He told them, go ahead, please come with us. 00:13:45.886 --> 00:13:48.016 Someone suggested I will. 00:13:48.106 --> 00:13:49.936 He said, so he went with them. 00:13:51.106 --> 00:13:54.976 When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees, but 00:13:54.976 --> 00:13:58.696 as one of them was cutting a tree, his axe head fell into the river. 00:13:59.476 --> 00:14:01.036 Oh, sir, he cried. 00:14:01.546 --> 00:14:02.926 It was a borrowed axe. 00:14:03.646 --> 00:14:04.606 Where did it fall? 00:14:04.966 --> 00:14:10.246 The man of God asked when he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and 00:14:10.246 --> 00:14:12.226 threw it into the water at that spot. 00:14:12.916 --> 00:14:15.586 Then the Axe head floated to the surface. 00:14:16.516 --> 00:14:18.016 Grab it, Elisha said. 00:14:18.661 --> 00:14:20.521 And the man reached out and grabbed it. 00:14:22.441 --> 00:14:25.321 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:14:25.441 --> 00:14:26.671 Thank you for joining us.