11. One day Elisha came to the woman’s house. He went to his room and rested.
12. He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.”When the servant called her, she stood in front of him.
13. Elisha told his servant, “Now say to her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak to the king or the commander of the army for you?’ ”The woman answered, “I live among my own people.”
14. Elisha said, “But what can we do for her?”Gehazi answered, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
15. Then Elisha said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she stood in the doorway.
16. Then Elisha said, “About this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.”The woman said, “No, master, man of God. Don’t lie to me!”
17. But the woman became pregnant. And she gave birth to a son at that time the next year as Elisha had told her.
18. The child grew. One day he went out to his father, who was with the men harvesting grain.
19. The boy said to his father, “My head! My head!”The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother!”
20. The servant took him to his mother. He lay on his mother’s lap until noon. Then he died.
21. She took him up and laid him on Elisha’s bed. Then she shut the door and went out.
22. She called to her husband. She said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. Then I can go quickly to the man of God and come back.”
23. The woman’s husband said, “Why do you want to go to him today? It isn’t the New Moon or the Sabbath day.”She said, “It will be all right.”