2 Kings 4
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2 Kings 4:18-27

18And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

19And he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

21And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.

22Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back.”

23So he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.” And she said, “It is well.”

24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”

25And so she departed, and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. So it was, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, the Shunammite woman!

26Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’ ” And she answered, “It is well.”

27Now when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet, but Gehazi came near to push her away. But the man of God said, “Let her alone; for her soul is in deep distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

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