29. Elisha said to Gehazi, "Get ready, take my staff, and go! If you encounter anyone, don’t stop to greet them. If anyone greets you, don’t reply. Put my staff on the boy’s face."
30. But the boy’s mother said, "I swear by your life and by the Lord’s life, I won’t leave you!" So Elisha got up and followed her.
31. Gehazi went on ahead of them. He set the staff on the young boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, "The boy didn’t wake up."
32. Elisha came into the house and saw the boy lying dead on his bed.
33. He went in and closed the door behind the two of them. Then he prayed to the Lord.
34. He got up on the bed and lay down on top of the child, putting his mouth on the boy’s mouth, his eyes on the boy’s eyes, his hands on the boy’s hands. And as he bent over him, the child’s skin grew warm.
35. Then Elisha got down and paced back and forth in the house. Once again he got up on the bed and bent over the boy, at which point the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36. Elisha called for Gehazi and said, "Call the Shunammite woman." Gehazi called her, and she came to Elisha. He told her, "Pick up your son."
37. She came and fell at his feet, facedown on the ground. Then she picked up her son and left.