She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.

While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”

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 he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.