20. So he picked up the boy and brought him to his mother.The boy sat on her lap until noon. Then he died.
21. She went up and laid him down on the bed for the man of God. Then she went out and closed the door.
22. She called her husband and said, "Send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys so that I can hurry to the man of God and come back."
23. Her husband said, "Why are you going to him today? It’s not a new moon or sabbath."She said, "Don’t worry about it."
24. She saddled the donkey, then said to her young servant, "Drive the donkey hard. Don’t let me slow down unless I tell you."
25. So she went off and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.As soon as the man of God saw her from a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, it’s the Shunammite woman!
26. Run out to meet her and ask her, ‘Are things okay with you, your husband, and your child?’"She said, "Things are okay."
27. When she got to the man of God at the mountain, she grabbed his feet. Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is distraught, but the Lord has hidden the reason from me and hasn’t told me why."
28. She said, "Did I ask you for a son, sir? Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t raise my hopes’?"
29. Elisha said to Gehazi, "Get ready, take my staff, and go! If you encounter anyone, don’t stop to greet them. If anyone greets you, don’t reply. Put my staff on the boy’s face."
30. But the boy’s mother said, "I swear by your life and by the Lord’s life, I won’t leave you!" So Elisha got up and followed her.
31. Gehazi went on ahead of them. He set the staff on the young boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, "The boy didn’t wake up."