📖WEB · 2 Kings 4:19
What does 2 Kings 4:19 mean?
"He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”"
— 2 Kings 4:19 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.
When the child was grown, one day he went out to his father to the reapers.
He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
She went up and laid him on the man of God’s bed, and shut the door on him, and went out.
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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