23. And he said, Why go to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath. And she said, It will be all right.
24. Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, Ride fast; do not slacken your pace for me unless I tell you.
25. So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her afar off, he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.
26. Run to meet her and say, Is it well with you? Well with your husband? Well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
27. When she came to the mountain to the man of God, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to thrust her away, but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is bitter and vexed within her, and the Lord has hid it from me and has not told me.
28. Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?
29. Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go lay my staff on the face of the child. If you meet any man, do not salute him. If he salutes you, do not answer him.
30. The mother of the child said, As the Lord lives and as my soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose and followed her.
31. Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the child's face, but the boy neither spoke nor heard. So he went back to meet Elisha and said to him, The child has not awakened.
32. When Elisha arrived in the house, the child was dead and laid upon his bed.
33. So he went in, shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.