Take up your son — Compare Elijah’s action and our Blessed Lord’s (Luke 7:15).

Take up your son. —So our Lord delivered to his mother the young man whom He raised from death by His word ([Ref…

Her heart was too full for speech just then, so she took up her son, and went out.

And he called Gehazi, and said, call this Shunammite
To come up to the chamber to him:

so he call…

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 …