New American Standard Bible

2 Kings 4:11-24 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

11. One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested.

12. Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And when he had called her, she stood before him.

13. He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?'" And she answered, "I live among my own people."

14. So he said, "What then is to be done for her?" And Gehazi answered, "Truly she has no son and her husband is old."

15. He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

16. Then he said, "At this season next year you will embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your maidservant."

17. The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

18. When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father to the reapers.

19. He said to his father, "My head, my head." And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20. When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died.

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

22. Then she called to her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return."

23. He said, "Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." And she said, "It will be well."

24. Then she saddled a donkey and said to her servant, "Drive and go forward; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you."