2 Kings 4:31-35

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ¹  he told him, “The child did not wake up.” 4:32 When Elisha arrived at the house, there was ²  the child lying dead on his bed. 4:33 He went in by himself and closed the door. ³  Then he prayed to the Lord. 4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ⁴  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ⁵  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ⁶  grew warm. 4:35 Elisha ⁷  went back and walked around in the house. ⁸  Then he got up on the bed again ⁹  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

[4:31]  ¹ tn Heb “to meet him.”

[4:32]  ² tn Heb “look.”

[4:33]  ³ tn Heb “and closed the door behind the two of them.”

[4:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

[4:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

[4:34]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

[4:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went up.”