15. “Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
16. Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.” Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not deceive your servant.”
17. The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.
18. The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.
19. Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head! ”His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.
21. Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.
22. She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and then come back.”
23. But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” She replied, “Everything is all right.”
24. Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Hurry, don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
25. So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi, “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman.
26. Run out to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your son all right? ’ ”And she answered, “Everything’s all right.”
27. When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone — she is in severe anguish, and the Lord has hidden it from me. He hasn’t told me.”
28. Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me? ’ ”
29. So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your mantle under your belt, take my staff with you, and go. If you meet anyone, don’t stop to greet him, and if a man greets you, don’t answer him. Then place my staff on the boy’s face.”