2 Kings 4:18-37 - Elisha Restores The Shunammite's Son
18 The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.
His father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died. 21 Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.
22 She summoned her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can hurry to the man of God and then come back.”
23 But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.”
She replied, “Everything is all right.”
24 Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Hurry, don’t slow the pace for me unless I tell you.” 25 So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel.
When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi,
And she answered, “Everything’s all right.”
27 When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet.
28 Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
29 So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your mantle
30 The boy’s mother said to Elisha, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.”
31 Gehazi went ahead of them and placed the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or sign of life, so he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy didn’t wake up.”
32 When Elisha got to the house, he discovered the boy lying dead on his bed.
36 Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” He called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.” 37 She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground; she picked up her son and left.