13. He said to Gehazi, "Tell her, 'You have gone to a lot of trouble for us. Now what can we do for you? Can we speak to the king for you? Or can we speak to the commander of the army for you?' " She replied, "I live among my own people. I have everything I need here."
14. After she left, Elisha asked Gehazi, "What can we do for her?" Gehazi said, "Well, she doesn't have a son. And her husband is old."
15. Then Elisha said, "Bring her here again." So he did. She stood in the doorway.
16. "You will hold a son in your arms," Elisha said. "It will be about this time next year." "No, my master!" she objected. "You are a man of God. So don't lie to me!"
17. But the woman became pregnant. She had a baby boy. It happened the next year about that same time. That's exactly what Elisha had told her would happen.
18. The child grew. One day he went out to get his father. His father was with those who were gathering the crops.
19. The boy said to his father, "My head hurts! It really hurts!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20. The servant lifted the boy up. He carried him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon. Then he died.
21. She went up to the room on the roof. There she laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
22. She sent for her husband. She said, "Please send me one of the servants and a donkey. Then I can go quickly to the man of God and return."
23. "Why do you want to go to him today?" he asked. "It isn't the time for the New Moon Feast. It isn't the Sabbath day." "Don't let that bother you," she said.
24. She put a saddle on her donkey. She said to her servant, "Let's go. Don't slow down for me unless I tell you to."
25. So she started out. She came to Mount Carmel. That's where the man of God was. When she was still a long way off, he saw her coming. He said to his servant Gehazi, "Look! There's the woman from Shunem!
26. Run out there to meet her. Ask her, 'Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' " "Everything is all right," she said.
27. She came to the man of God at the mountain. Then she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away. But the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is suffering terribly. But the Lord hasn't told me the reason for it. He has hidden it from me."