So she took him up and laid him on Elisha’s bed. Then she shut the door and left.
Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” Elijah took the boy from her, carried him upstairs, and laid him on the bed in the room where he was staying.
Let’s make a small room on the roof and put a bed in the room for him. We can put a table, a chair, and a lampstand there. Then when he comes by, he can stay there.”
The servant took him to his mother, and he lay on his mother’s lap until noon. Then he died.
She called to her husband, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. Then I can go quickly to the man of God and return.”
When Elisha came into the house, the boy was lying dead on his bed.
She went and told Elisha. And the prophet said to her, “Go, sell the oil and pay what you owe. You and your sons can live on what is left.”