29. Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don’t greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
30. But the child’s mother said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
31. Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
32. When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.