2 Kings 4:18-27

18Several years later the boy went to his father, who was with the harvest workers.

19⌞Suddenly,⌟ he said to his father, “My head! My head!” The father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20The servant picked him up and brought him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, when he died.

21She took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God, left ⌞the room⌟, and shut the door behind her.

22She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. I will go quickly to the man of God and come back again.”

23Her husband asked, “Why are you going to him today? It isn’t a New Moon Festival or a day of rest—a holy day.” But she said goodbye to him.

24She saddled the donkey. Then she told her servant, “Lead on. Don’t slow down unless I tell you.”

25So she came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her coming at a distance, he told his servant Gehazi, “There is the woman from Shunem.

26Run to meet her and ask her how she, her husband, and the boy are doing.” “Everyone’s fine,” she answered.

27When she came to the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi went to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone. She is bitter. The Lord has hidden the reason from me. He hasn’t told me.”