2 Kings 4:21-37

21She then went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door on 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 come back.”

23But he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither New Moon nor Shabbat.” But she said, “It will be well.”

24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Move on! Don’t slow down riding unless I tell you.”

25So she set out and came near the man of God at Mount Carmel. Upon seeing her from a distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite.

26Please, run now to meet her and ask her: ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the boy?’” She answered, “It is well.”

27But when she arrived at the mountain, up to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi stepped forward to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, yet Adonai has hid it from me and has not told me.”

28“Did I ask my lord for a son?” she said. “Didn’t I say, ‘Don’t deceive me’?”

29Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, don’t greet him. Or if anyone greets you, don’t answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the child.”

30But the mother of the child said, “As Adonai lives and as you live, I won’t leave you.” So he arose and followed her.

31Gehazi passed on ahead of them and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.”

32When Elisha entered the house, there was the child, dead and laying on his bed.

33So he entered and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to Adonai.

34Then he got up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself upon him. So the flesh of the child became warm.

35Then he stepped down and walked in the house to and fro, and then he got up on the bed and stretched himself on him. The child sneezed seven times, then the child opened his eyes.

36He then called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her. When she came in to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”

37She came, fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.