16. Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be cradling a baby son.” She said, “My lord, you are a man of God; do not deceive your servant.”
17. Yet the woman conceived, and by the same time the following year she had given birth to a son, as Elisha had promised;
18. and the child grew up healthy.One day the boy went out to his father among the reapers.