2 Kings 4:8-20

8Now there came a day when Elisha passed over to 1Shunem, where there was a 2prominent woman, and she persuaded him to eat 3food. And so it was, as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat 4food. 9She said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy 5man of God passing by us continually. 10Please, let us 6make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

117One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and 8rested. 12Then he said to 9Gehazi 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 10careful for us with all this 11care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?’” And she 12answered, “I live among my own people.” 14So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi 13answered, “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, “14At this season 15next year you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, 16do not lie to your maidservant.”

17The woman conceived and bore a son at that season 17the 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 18lap until noon, and then died.