8. One day when Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was a prominent woman who persuaded him to eat some food. And so it was, whenever he passed through, he would stop for a meal.
9. Then she said to her husband, “Behold now, I realize that this man who often passes through is a holy man of God.
10. Please, let’s make a little walled room on the roof, and let’s put there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand for him. Then whenever he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11. One day he came there, and retired to the upper chamber and lay down there.
12. Then he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite woman.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
13. He said to him, “Tell her: Behold, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Can something be communicated to the king or to the commander of the army for you?” She answered, “I am living among my own people.”
14. So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” Then Gehazi answered, “In fact, she has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. “Call her,” he said. And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.
16. Then he said, “At this season next year, you will be embracing a son.” But she said, “No, my lord, do not lie to your handmaid, man of God.”
17. Nevertheless, the woman conceived and bore a son during that season the following year, just as Elisha had told her.
18. Now when the child was grown, one day he went out to his father among the reapers.
19. Then he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. So he picked him up and brought him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon, and then died.
21. She then went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door on him and went out.
22. Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys that I may run to the man of God and come back.”
23. But he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither New Moon nor Shabbat.” But she said, “It will be well.”
24. Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Move on! Don’t slow down riding unless I tell you.”
25. So she set out and came near the man of God at Mount Carmel. Upon seeing her from a distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite.
26. Please, run now to meet her and ask her: ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the boy?’” She answered, “It is well.”
27. But when she arrived at the mountain, up to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi stepped forward to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, yet Adonai has hid it from me and has not told me.”
28. “Did I ask my lord for a son?” she said. “Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t deceive me’?”