16. “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”
17. But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.
18. One day when her child was older, he went out to help his father, who was working with the harvesters.
19. Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”
20. So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died.
21. She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there.
22. She sent a message to her husband: “Send one of the servants and a donkey so that I can hurry to the man of God and come right back.”
23. “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”But she said, “It will be all right.”