12. He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she stood before him.
13. He said to him, “Say to her, Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What may be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king, or to the captain of the army?”And she answered, “I am living among my people.”
14. He said, “What may be done for her?”And Gehazi said, “Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the entrance.
16. He said, “At this season, when it is time, you will embrace a son.”And she said, “No, my lord, man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
17. But the woman conceived and bore a son at that season, at the time that Elisha had told her.
18. When the child was older, he went out one day to his father with the reapers.
19. He said to his father, “My head, my head!”And he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, the boy sat on her knees until noon, and died.
21. She went up, and laid him down on the bed of the man of God, shut the door on him, and went out.
22. Then she called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.”
23. He said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither New Moon nor Sabbath.”She said, “It will be all right.”
24. Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on, and do not hold back for me unless I tell you.”