15. Elisha said, “Call her.” He did so, and when she stood at the door,
16. Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be cradling a baby son.” She said, “My lord, you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant.”
17. Yet the woman conceived, and by the same time the following year she had given birth to a son, as Elisha had promised;
18. and the child grew up healthy.One day the boy went out to his father among the reapers.
19. He said to his father, “My head! My head!” And his father said to the servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. The servant picked him up and carried him to his mother; he sat in her lap until noon, and then died.
21. She went upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Closing the door on him, she went out
22. and called to her husband, “Let me have one of the servants and a donkey. I must go quickly to the man of God, and I will be back.”
23. He asked, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the sabbath.” But she said, “It is all right.”
24. When the donkey was saddled, she said to her servant, “Lead on! Do not stop my donkey unless I tell you.”
25. She kept going till she reached the man of God on Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi: “There is the Shunammite!
26. Hurry to meet her, and ask if everything is all right with her, with her husband, and with the boy.” “Everything is all right,” she replied.
27. But when she reached the man of God on the mountain, she clasped his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said: “Let her alone, she is in bitter anguish; the Lord hid it from me and did not let me know.”
28. She said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not mislead me’?”