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."