Catholic Public Domain Version

2 Kings 4:10-22 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

10. Therefore, let us prepare a small upper room for him, and place a bed in it for him, and a table, and a chair, and a lampstand, so that when he comes to us, he may stay there."

11. Then it happened that, on a certain day, arriving, he turned aside into the upper room, and he rested there.

12. And he said to his servant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite woman." And when he had called her, and she stood before him,

13. he said to his servant: "Say to her: Behold, you have ministered to us attentively in all things. What do you want, that I might do for you? Do you have any business, or do you want me to speak to the king, or to the leader of the military?" And she responded, "I live in the midst of my own people."

14. And he said, "Then what does she want, that I might do for her?" And Gehazi said: "You need not ask. For she has no son, and her husband is elderly."

15. And so, he instructed him to call her. And when she had been called, and was standing before the door,

16. he said to her, "At this time, and at this same hour, with life as a companion, you will have a son in your womb." But she responded, "Do not, I ask you, my lord, a man of God, do not be willing to lie to your handmaid."

17. And the woman conceived. And she bore a son, in the time and at the same hour as Elisha had said.

18. And the boy grew. And on a certain day, when he had gone out to his father, to the harvesters,

19. he said to his father: "I have a pain in my head. I have a pain in my head." But he said to his servant, "Take him, and lead him to his mother."

20. But when he had taken him, and he had led him to his mother, she placed him upon her knees, until midday, and then he died.

21. Then she went up and laid him out on the bed of the man of God, and she closed the door. And departing,

22. she called her husband, and she said: "Send with me, I beg you, one of your servants, and a donkey, so that I may hurry to the man of God, and then return."