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10 Let’s make a small room on the roof[a] and put a bed in the room for him. We can put a table, a chair, and a lampstand there. Then when he comes by, he can stay there.”

11 One day Elisha came to the woman’s house. After he went to his room and rested, 12 he said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite woman.”

When the servant had called her, she stood in front of him.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:10 roof In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship, and as a cool place to sleep in the summer.

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