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’?”
29. He said to Gehazi, “Get ready for a journey. Take my staff with you and be off; if you meet anyone, give no greeting, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff upon the boy.”
30. But the boy’s mother cried out: “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not release you.” So he started back with her.
31. Meanwhile, Gehazi had gone on ahead and had laid the staff upon the boy, but there was no sound, no response. He returned to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
32. When Elisha reached the house, he found the boy dead, lying on the bed.
33. He went in, closed the door on them both, and prayed to the Lord.
34. Then he lay upon the child on the bed, placing his mouth upon the child’s mouth, his eyes upon the eyes, and his hands upon the hands. As Elisha stretched himself over the child, the boy’s flesh became warm.
35. He arose, paced up and down the room, and then once more stretched himself over him, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36. Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” He called her, and she came to him, and Elisha said to her, “Take your son.”
37. She came in and fell at his feet in homage; then she took her son and left.
38. When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. Once, when the guild prophets were seated before him, he said to his servant, “Put the large pot on, and make some vegetable stew for the guild prophets.”
39. Someone went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine, from which he picked a sackful of poisonous wild gourds. On his return he cut them up into the pot of vegetable stew without anybody’s knowing it.
40. The stew was served, but when they began to eat it, they cried, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
41. He said, “Bring some meal.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people to eat.” And there was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
42. A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing the man of God twenty barley loaves made from the first fruits, and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”