8And it was one day, and Elisha passed to Shunem. And there was a great woman there, and she urged him to eat bread. And it was, every time he passed, he turned aside there to eat bread.9And she said to her husband, "Look, I know that he is a holy man of God who passes by us regularly."10"Let us make, please, a little upper chamber with a wall, and let us put there for him a bed and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, he will turn aside there."11It was evening, and he came there, turned aside to the room, and lay down there.12He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call to this Shunammite." He called to her, and she stood before him.13He said to him, "Please say to Tamar, 'Look, you have shown fear to us with all this fear. What is to be done for you? Is there a word for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She said, "I dwell in the midst of my people."14He said, "What can we do for her?" Gehazi said, "She has no son, and her husband is old."15He said, "Call her." He called her, and she stood in the doorway.16He said, "At this appointed time next year, you will embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, man of God, do not deceive your female servant."17The woman conceived and bore a son at that appointed time next year, as Elisha had spoken to her.18The child grew up. And on the day, he went out to his father among the harvesters.19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" And he said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."20She bore him and brought him to his mother. He sat on her knees until noon, and he died.21She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door behind him, and went out.22And she called to a man and said, "Please send one of the lads and one of the donkeys to me, and I will run to the man of God and return."23He said, "Why are you going to him today? It is not the new moon, and it is not the Sabbath." She said, "Peace."24And she saddled the donkey and said to the young woman, "Drive and go. Do not hold back for me to ride, unless I tell you."25She went and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. And when the man of God saw her from a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, the Shunammite."26Now run, please, to meet her and say to her, "Peace to you, peace to your man, peace to the child." She said, "Peace."27She came to the man of God at the mountain and grasped his feet. Gehazi approached to push her away, but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."28And she said, "Did I not say, 'The one I asked for—a son—from my Lord! Do not deceive me'?"29Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird your loins, take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Put my staff on the boy's face."30And she said, "As the LORD lives and as your life force lives, if I leave you." And he arose and went after her.31And Gehazi went on ahead of them and put the staff on the boy's face, but there was no voice and no response. So he returned to meet him and told him, saying, "The boy has not awakened."32Elisha came to the house, and there the boy was dead, lying on his bed.33He entered and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD.34He went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself out on him, and the child's flesh grew warm.35He went back and forth in the house, then went up and bent over him. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.36And he called to Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called her, and she came to him. And he said, "Take your son."37She came, fell at his feet, bowed to the ground, took her son, and went out.