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2 Kings 4:32 (CEV)

Elisha arrived at the woman's house and went straight to his room, where he saw the boy's body on his bed.

2 Kings 4:33 (CEV)

He walked in, shut the door, and prayed to the Lord .

2 Kings 4:34 (CEV)

Then he got on the bed and stretched out over the dead body, with his mouth on the boy's mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hand on his hands. As he lay there, the boy's body became warm.

2 Kings 4:35 (CEV)

Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the room, then he went back and leaned over the boy's body. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Kings 4:36 (CEV)

Elisha called out to Gehazi, “Ask the boy's mother to come here.” Gehazi did, and when she was at the door, Elisha said, “You can take your son.”

2 Kings 4:37 (CEV)

She came in and bowed down at Elisha's feet. Then she picked up her son and left.

Later, Elisha went back to Gilgal, where there was almost nothing to eat, because the crops had failed. One day while the prophets who lived there were meeting with Elisha, he said to his servant, “Prepare a big pot of stew for these prophets.”

2 Kings 4:39 (CEV)

One of them went out into the woods to gather some herbs. He found a wild vine and picked as much of its fruit as he could carry, but he didn't know that the fruit was very sour. When he got back, he cut up the fruit and put it in the stew.

2 Kings 4:40 (CEV)

The stew was served, and when the prophets started eating it, they shouted, “Elisha, this stew tastes terrible! We can't eat it.”

2 Kings 4:41 (CEV)

“Bring me some flour,” Elisha said. He sprinkled the flour in the stew and said, “Now serve it to them.” And the stew tasted fine.

2 Kings 4:42 (CEV)

A man from the town of Baal-Shalishah brought Elisha some freshly cut grain and 20 loaves of bread made from the first barley that was harvested. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”

2 Kings 4:43 (CEV)

“There's not enough here for 100 people,” his servant said. “Just give it to them,” Elisha replied. “The Lord has promised there will be more than enough.”

2 Kings 4:44 (CEV)

So the servant served the bread and grain to the people. They ate and still had some left over, just as the Lord had promised.

2 Chronicles 4:1 (CEV)

Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine meters square and four and a half meters high.

2 Chronicles 4:2 (CEV)

He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was 4.5 meters across, just over two meters deep, and 13.5 meters around.

2 Chronicles 4:3 (CEV)

Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every 45 centimeters, all made from the same piece of metal as the bowl.

2 Chronicles 4:4 (CEV)

The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outward in each of four directions.

2 Chronicles 4:5 (CEV)

The sides of the bowl were 75 millimeters thick, and its rim was in the shape of a cup that curved outward like flower petals. The bowl held about 60,000 liters.

2 Chronicles 4:6 (CEV)

He also made ten small bowls and put five on each side of the large bowl. The small bowls were used to wash the animals that were burned on the altar as sacrifices, and the priests used the water in the large bowl to wash their hands.

2 Chronicles 4:7 (CEV)

Ten gold lampstands were also made according to the plans. Solomon placed these lampstands inside the temple, five on each side of the main room.

2 Chronicles 4:8 (CEV)

He also made ten tables and placed them in the main room, five on each side. And he made 100 small gold sprinkling bowls.

2 Chronicles 4:9 (CEV)

Solomon gave orders to build two courtyards: a smaller one that only priests could use and a larger one. The doors to these courtyards were covered with bronze.

2 Chronicles 4:10 (CEV)

The large bowl called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the temple.

2 Chronicles 4:11 (CEV)

Huram made shovels, sprinkling bowls, and pans for hot ashes. Here is a list of the other furnishings he made for God's temple:

2 Chronicles 4:12 (CEV)

two columns, two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of these columns, two chain designs on the caps,