18. The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.
19. He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.
21. She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.
22. She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”
23. He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.”
24. She saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”
25. So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.