Prayed - Prayer was the only remedy in a case like this , though it did not exclude the use of other means (2 Kings 4:34).

He went in therefore. —Compare the narrative of Elijah’s raising the widow’s son (1 Kings 17:17–24), which is imitated…

And he arose, and followed her. And Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, no…

He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them two
Himself and the dead child; that nobody might come in and inte…

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 …