9. Some time later the woman said to her husband, “I'm sure the man who comes here so often is a prophet of God.
10. Why don't we build him a small room on the flat roof of our house? We can put a bed, a table and chair, and an oil lamp in it. Then whenever he comes, he can stay with us.”
11. The next time Elisha was in Shunem, he stopped at their house and went up to his room to rest.
12-13. He said to his servant Gehazi, “This woman has been very helpful. Ask her to come up here to the roof for a moment.” She came, and Elisha told Gehazi to say to her, “You've gone to a lot of trouble for us, and we want to help you. Is there something we can request the king or army commander to do?”The woman answered, “With my relatives nearby, I have everything I need.”
14. “Then what can we do for her?” Elisha asked Gehazi.Gehazi replied, “I do know that her husband is old, and that she doesn't have a son.”
15. “Ask her to come here again,” Elisha told his servant. He called for her, and she came and stood in the doorway of Elisha's room.
16. Elisha said to her, “Next year at this time, you'll be holding your own baby son in your arms.”“You're a man of God,” the woman replied. “Please don't lie to me.”
17. But a few months later, the woman got pregnant. She gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had promised.
18. One day while the boy was still young, he was out in the fields with his father, where the workers were harvesting the crops.
19. Suddenly he shouted, “My head hurts. It hurts a lot!”“Carry him back to his mother,” the father said to his servant.
20. The servant picked up the boy and carried him to his mother. The boy lay on her lap all morning, and by midday he was dead.
21. She carried him upstairs to Elisha's room and laid him across the bed. Then she walked out and shut the door behind her.
22. The woman called to her husband, “I need to see the prophet. Let me use one of the donkeys. Send a servant along with me, and let me leave now, so I can get back quickly.”