Laid him on the bed of the man of God. —She wished to keep the death secret, and the corpse inviolate, during her intende…

She did not tell him her errand; she wished to keep the trouble to herself for a while.

And she went up
Into the little chamber built for the prophet:

and laid him on the bed of the man…

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 …