15 Elisha said, “Call her.” He did so, and when she stood at the door,
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.
19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!” And his father said to the servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 The servant picked him up and carried him to his mother; he sat in her lap until noon, and then died.
21 She went upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Closing the door on him, she went out