The child’s illness was a sunstroke. The inhabitants of Palestine suffered from this (Psalms 121:6; Isaiah 49:10).

My head, my head. —The boy had a sunstroke. It was the hot season of harvest, and his head was probably uncovered.

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And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. And he said, Call her. And…

And he said unto his father, my head, my head After he had been some time with him, he complained of a pain in his head, …

Here is the sudden death of the child. All the mother's tenderness cannot keep alive a child of promise, a child of prayer, one given in love. But …