Thursday | 16 April 2026
As the Shunamite woman approached Mount Carmel, Elisha sent Gehazi to ask her about her family. She responded by saying, ‘It is well.’ 2Ki 4:26. The woman’s response does not mean that she was ‘in denial’ or disconnected from the reality of her situation. Rather, her statement demonstrates that she was not fearful or neurotic. She was not demanding an intervention. This was an expression of her chaste conduct accompanied by the fear of the Lord. 1Pe 3:2.
When she came before Elisha, the messenger, she caught him by the feet and said to him, ‘Did I ask a son of my lord? Did I not say, “Do not deceive me”?’ 2Ki 4:27‑28. The Shunamite’s response was the same as the woman who washed Christ’s feet with her tears in the house of Simon the Pharisee. Luk 7:37‑38. It was an action of repentance, as she reminded the messenger of the response that she had made when the word had first been proclaimed to her. She was confessing that the word had died in her house, and the promise had been consumed because of her unbelief.
This was now a second-time opportunity for the woman to obtain and express faith for her predestination and for the predestination of her son. The child would not be healed through Elisha’s faith; he would be healed through the faith of the woman. To this end, she would not leave Elisha, even though he sent Gehazi to raise the child. The woman confessed her faith in relation to the messenger by saying, ‘As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you’. 2Ki 4:30. Significantly, the child was not recovered to life through the actions of Gehazi under the direction of Elisha. Rather, Elisha came to the house with the woman and ministered resurrection life to the child. He then delivered the child back to his mother.
Further Study:
Luke 7
References:
2Ki 4:26-28
Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’ And she answered, ‘It is well.’ Now when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push her away. But the man of God said, ‘Let her alone; for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.’ So, she said, ‘Did I ask a son of my lord? Did I not say, “Do not deceive me?”’
1Pe 3:2
When they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
Luk 7:37-38
And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.
2Ki 4:30
And the mother of the child said, ‘As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.’ So, he arose and followed her.