2 Kings 4:12-25

12And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her and she stood before him.

13Now he said to Gehazi, “Say to her now, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us; what can I do for you? Would you like to be mentioned to the king or to the captain of the army?’ ” She answered, “I live among my own people [in peace and security and need no special favors].”

14Later Elisha said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son and her husband is old.”

15He said, “Call her.” So Gehazi called her, and she [came and] stood in the doorway.

16Elisha said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord. O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.”

17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at that season the next year, just as Elisha had said to her.

18When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

19But he said to his father, “My head, my head.” The man said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20When he had carried and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door [of the small upper room] behind him and left.

22Then she called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.”

23He said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.” And she said, “It will be all right.”

24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Drive [the animal] fast; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you.”

25So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.