28. The woman said to him, “Sir, did I ask you for a son? Didn't I tell you not to raise my hopes?”
29. Elisha turned to Gehazi and said, “Hurry! Take my stick and go. Don't stop to greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, don't take time to answer. Go straight to the house and hold my stick over the boy.”
30. The woman said to Elisha, “I swear by my loyalty to the living Lord and to you that I will not leave you!” So the two of them started back together.
31. Gehazi went on ahead and held Elisha's stick over the child, but there was no sound or any other sign of life. So he went back to meet Elisha and said, “The boy didn't wake up.”
32. When Elisha arrived, he went alone into the room and saw the boy lying dead on the bed.
33. He closed the door and prayed to the Lord.
34. Then he lay down on the boy, placing his mouth, eyes, and hands on the boy's mouth, eyes, and hands. As he lay stretched out over the boy, the boy's body started to get warm.
35. Elisha got up, walked about the room, and then went back and again stretched himself over the boy. The boy sneezed seven times, and then opened his eyes.
36. Elisha called Gehazi and told him to call the boy's mother. When she came in, he said to her, “Here's your son.”
37. She fell at Elisha's feet, with her face touching the ground; then she took her son and left.
38. Once, when there was a famine throughout the land, Elisha returned to Gilgal. While he was teaching a group of prophets, he told his servant to put a big pot on the fire and make some stew for them.