29. Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go lay my staff on the face of the child. If you meet any man, do not salute him. If he salutes you, do not answer him.
30. The mother of the child said, As the Lord lives and as my soul lives, I will not leave you. And he arose and followed her.
31. Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the child's face, but the boy neither spoke nor heard. So he went back to meet Elisha and said to him, The child has not awakened.
32. When Elisha arrived in the house, the child was dead and laid upon his bed.
33. So he went in, shut the door on the two of them, and prayed to the Lord.