New King James Version

2 Kings 4:13-25 New King James Version (NKJV)

13. And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Look, you have been concerned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’ ”She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

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

15. So he said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

16. Then he said, “About this time next year you shall embrace a son.”And she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maidservant!”

17. But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her.

18. And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.

19. And he said to his father, “My head, my head!”So he said to a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

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

21. And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door upon him, and went out.

22. Then she called to her husband, and said, “Please send me one of the young men and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come back.”

23. So he said, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the New Moon nor the Sabbath.”And she said, “It is well.”

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

25. And so she departed, and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel.So it was, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, the Shunammite woman!