She carried him up to Elisha's room, put him on the bed and left, closing the door behind her.
“Give the boy to me,” Elijah said. He took the boy from her arms, carried him upstairs to the room where he was staying, and laid him on the bed.
Let's build a small room on the roof, put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it, and he can stay there whenever he visits us.”
The servant carried the boy back to his mother, who held him in her lap until noon, at which time he died.
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.”
When Elisha arrived, he went alone into the room and saw the boy lying dead on the bed.
She went back to Elisha, the prophet, who said to her, “Sell the olive oil and pay all your debts, and there will be enough money left over for you and your sons to live on.”