2 Kings 4:12-25

12Then he said to 1Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he had called her, she stood before him. 13He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have been 2careful for us with all this 3care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?’” And she 4answered, “I live among my own people.” 14So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi 5answered, “Truly she has no son and her husband is old.” 15He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. 16Then he said, “6At this season 7next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, 8do not lie to your maidservant.”

17The woman conceived and bore a son at that season 9the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

18When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19He said to his father, “My head, my head.” And he said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her 10lap until noon, and then died. 21She went up and 11laid him on the bed of 12the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out. 22Then 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 return.” 23He said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither 13new moon nor sabbath.” And she said, “It will be well.” 24Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, “Drive and go forward; do not slow down 14the pace for me unless I tell you.” 25So she went and came to the man of God to 15Mount Carmel.

When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, 16there is the Shunammite.