28. “Did I ask my lord for a son?” she said. “Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t deceive me’?”
29. Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, don’t greet him. Or if anyone greets you, don’t answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the child.”
30. But the mother of the child said, “As Adonai lives and as you live, I won’t leave you.” So he arose and followed her.
31. Gehazi passed on ahead of them and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.”
32. When Elisha entered the house, there was the child, dead and laying on his bed.
33. So he entered and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to Adonai.
34. Then he got up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself upon him. So the flesh of the child became warm.
35. Then he stepped down and walked in the house to and fro, and then he got up on the bed and stretched himself on him. The child sneezed seven times, then the child opened his eyes.
36. He then called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her. When she came in to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”