2 Kings 4:12-25

12He ordered his attendant Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she stood before him.

13Then he said to Gehazi, “Say to her, ‘Look, you’ve gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army? ’” She answered, “I am living among my own people.”

14So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

15“Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.

16Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.” Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

17The woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the same time the following year, as Elisha had promised her.

18The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.

19Suddenly he complained to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.

21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.

22She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and come back again.”

23But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” She replied, “It’s all right.”

24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Go fast; don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”

25So she came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi, “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman.