19. The boy said to his father, “Oh, my head! My head hurts!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother!”
20. The servant took the boy to his mother. The boy sat on his mother’s lap until noon. Then he died.
21. The woman laid the boy on the bed of Elisha, the man of God. Then she shut the door to that room and went outside.
22. She called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey. Then I will go quickly to get the man of God and come back.”
23. The woman’s husband said, “Why would you want to go to the man of God today? It isn’t the New Moon or Sabbath day.” She said, “Goodbye!”
24. Then she put a saddle on a donkey and said to her servant, “Let’s go, and hurry! Go slow only when I tell you.”
25. The woman went to Mount Carmel to get the man of God. The man of God saw the Shunammite woman coming from far away and said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman!