He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 4:19 in context
2 Kings 4:16–22
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He said, “At this season next year, you will embrace a son.”
She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
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The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
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When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.
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He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
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When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
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She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.
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She called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and come again.”
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