A moment in scripture
2 Kings 4:19
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And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
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The surrounding passage
- 2 Kings 4:17
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
- 2 Kings 4:18
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
- 2 Kings 4:20
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
- 2 Kings 4:21
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.