2 Kings 4:8-20

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

11Now 7one day he came there, and turned in to the upper room and 8rested. 12Then he said to his servant 9Gehazi, “Call this Shunammite.” And when he had called her, she stood before him. 13And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have taken trouble for us with all this 10care; what can I do for you? 11Would you like me to speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’” But she 12answered, “I live among my own people.” 14So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi 13answered, “It is a fact that she has no son, and her husband is old.” 15He then said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. 16Then he said, “14At this season 15next year, you are going to embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, you man of God, 16do not lie to your servant.”

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

18When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father, to the reapers. 19And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” And his father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20When he had carried him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her 18lap until noon, and then he died.