Lexham English Bible

2 Kings 4:15-25 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

15. And he said, “Call for her,” so he called for her and she stood in the doorway.

16. And he said, “At this time next spring, you will be embracing a son.” She said, “No, my lord, O man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!”

17. But the woman conceived, and she bore a son in the spring, which Elisha had promised to her.

18. The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father and to the reapers.

19. Then he said to his father, “My head, my head!” So he said to the servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

20. So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died.

21. She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door, and went out behind it.

22. She called to her husband and said, “Please send one of the servants and one of the female donkeys for me, so that I can go quickly up to the man of God and return.”

23. And he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the Sabbath!” And she said, “Peace.”

24. She saddled the female donkey, and she said to her servant, “Drive along and go; you must not hold me back from riding, unless I tell you.”

25. So she went and came to the man of God by Mount Carmel. It happened when the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, “There is this Shunammite.