14. Later Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can we do for her?”Gehazi replied, “She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is an old man.”
15. “Call her back again,” Elisha told him. When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway,
16. “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”
17. But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.
18. One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters.