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.”