2 Kings 4:8-20

8One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

9She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.

10Let’s make a small private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

11One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.

12He told his servant Gehazi, “Ask the Shunammite woman to come here.” So he did so and she came to him.

13Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied, “I’m quite secure.”

14So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

15Elisha told him, “Ask her to come here.” So he did so and she came and stood in the doorway.

16He said, “About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said, “No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”

17The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

18The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

19He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

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