29. Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready to go. Take my walking stick and go! If you meet anyone along the way, don’t even stop to say hello to him. If anyone says hello to you, don’t answer. Put my walking stick on the child’s face.”
30. But the child’s mother said, “I promise, as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave without you!” So Elisha got up and followed her.
31. Gehazi arrived at the house before Elisha and the Shunammite woman. Gehazi laid the walking stick on the child’s face, but the child did not talk or show any sign that he heard anything. Then Gehazi came back to meet Elisha and said, “The child will not wake up!”
32. Elisha went into the house, and there was the child, lying dead on his bed.
33. Elisha went into the room and shut the door. He and the child were alone in the room now. Then he prayed to the Lord.
34. Elisha went to the bed and lay on the child. He put his eyes on the child’s eyes, his mouth on the child’s mouth, and his hands on the child’s hands. He lay there on top of the child until the child’s body became warm.