18 One day while the boy was still young, he was out in the fields with his father, where the workers were harvesting the crops.
19 Suddenly he shouted, “My head hurts. It hurts a lot!”“Carry him back to his mother,” the father said to his servant.
20 The servant picked up the boy and carried him to his mother. The boy lay on her lap all morning, and by noon he was dead.
21 She carried him upstairs to Elisha's room and laid him across the bed. Then she walked out and shut the door behind her.
22 The woman called to her husband, “I need to see the prophet. Let me use one of the donkeys. Send a servant along with me, and let me leave now, so I can get back quickly.”
23 “Why do you need to see him today?” her husband asked. “It's not the Sabbath or time for the New Moon Festival.”“That's all right,” she answered.
24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Let's go. And don't slow down unless I tell you to.”