12. Then he said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the Shunammite woman I want to see her.” He called her and she came to him.
13. Through Gehazi Elisha said, “You’ve gone far beyond the call of duty in taking care of us; what can we do for you? Do you have a request we can bring to the king or to the commander of the army?”She replied, “Nothing. I’m secure and satisfied in my family.”
14. Elisha conferred with Gehazi: “There’s got to be something we can do for her. But what?”Gehazi said, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is an old man.”
15. “Call her in,” said Elisha. He called her and she stood at the open door.
16. Elisha said to her, “This time next year you’re going to be nursing an infant son.”“O my master, O Holy Man,” she said, “don’t play games with me, teasing me with such fantasies!”
17. The woman conceived. A year later, just as Elisha had said, she had a son.
18-19. The child grew up. One day he went to his father, who was working with the harvest hands, complaining, “My head, my head!”His father ordered a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20. The servant took him in his arms and carried him to his mother. He lay on her lap until noon and died.
21. She took him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in alone, and left.