Common English Bible

2 Kings 4:15-23 Common English Bible (CEB)

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."