Bible verse
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
2 Kings 4:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Kings 4.
16 And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
17 But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
19 “My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
22 And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
23 “Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
24 Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
KJV
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and [then] died.
ASV
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
ERV
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
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