16. Elisha said, “At this time next spring, you will hold a baby boy in your arms.”She answered, “Don’t say that, sir. Don’t lie to me. You’re a man of God.”
17. But the woman became pregnant and had a son at that time next year, as Elisha had told her.
18. Several years later the boy went to his father, who was with the harvest workers.
19. ⌊Suddenly,⌋ he said to his father, “My head! My head!”The father told his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. The servant picked him up and brought him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, when he died.
21. She took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God, left ⌊the room⌋, and shut the door behind her.
22. She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. I will go quickly to the man of God and come back again.”