19 Suddenly he cried out to his father, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”“Carry the boy to his mother,” the father said to a servant.
20 The servant carried the boy back to his mother, who held him in her lap until noon, at which time he died.
21 She carried him up to Elisha's room, put him on the bed and left, closing the door behind her.
22 Then she called her husband and said to him, “Send a servant here with a donkey. I need to go to the prophet Elisha. I'll be back as soon as I can.”
23 “Why do you have to go today?” her husband asked. “It's neither a Sabbath nor a New Moon Festival.”“Never mind,” she answered.
24 Then she had the donkey saddled, and ordered the servant, “Make the donkey go as fast as it can, and don't slow down unless I tell you to.”
25 So she set out and went to Mount Carmel, where Elisha was.Elisha saw her coming while she was still some distance away, and he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there comes the woman from Shunem!