12. He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite woman." Gehazi called her, and she stood before him.
13. Elisha then said to Gehazi, "Say to her, ‘Look, you’ve gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Is there anything I can say on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’"She said, "I’m content to live at home with my own people."
14. Elisha asked, "So what can be done for her?"Gehazi said, "Well, she doesn’t have a son, and her husband is old."
15. Elisha said, "Call her." So Gehazi called her, and she stood at the door.
16. Elisha said, "About this time next year, you will be holding a son in your arms."But she said, "No, man of God, sir; don’t lie to your servant."
17. But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at about the same time the next year. This was what Elisha had promised her.
18. The child grew up. One day he ran to his father, who was with the harvest workers.
19. He said to his father, "Oh, my head! My head!"The father said to a young man, "Carry him to his mother."
20. So he picked up the boy and brought him to his mother.The boy sat on her lap until noon. Then he died.
21. She went up and laid him down on the bed for the man of God. Then she went out and closed the door.
22. She called her husband and said, "Send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys so that I can hurry to the man of God and come back."
23. Her husband said, "Why are you going to him today? It’s not a new moon or sabbath."She said, "Don’t worry about it."
24. She saddled the donkey, then said to her young servant, "Drive the donkey hard. Don’t let me slow down unless I tell you."
25. So she went off and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.As soon as the man of God saw her from a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, it’s the Shunammite woman!
26. Run out to meet her and ask her, ‘Are things okay with you, your husband, and your child?’"She said, "Things are okay."
27. When she got to the man of God at the mountain, she grabbed his feet. Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is distraught, but the Lord has hidden the reason from me and hasn’t told me why."