Catholic Public Domain Version

2 Kings 4:19-25 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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."

23. And he said to her: "What is the reason that you would go to him? Today is not the new moon, and it is not the Sabbath." She responded, "I will go."

24. And she saddled a donkey, and she instructed her servant: "Drive, and hurry on. You shall cause no delay for me in departing. And do whatever I instruct you to do."

25. And so she set out. And she came to the man of God, on mount Carmel. And when the man of God had seen her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi: "Behold, it is that Shunammite woman.