2 Kings 4:19

19 complaining, "My head, my head!" His father ordered a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

2 Kings 4:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:19

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, which might be owing, as Abarbinel thinks, to the sun's beating upon it, being harvest time, and hot weather; and the pain being exceeding great and vehement, he repeated his complaint, see ( Jeremiah 4:19 )

and he said to a lad, carry him home to his mother;
his father gave orders to a lad that attended the reapers to have him home to his mother, that she might give him something to ease him of his pain.

2 Kings 4:19 In-Context

17 The woman conceived. A year later, just as Elisha had said, she had a son.
18 The child grew up. One day he went to his father, who was working with the harvest hands,
19 complaining, "My head, my head!" His father ordered a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
20 The servant took him in his arms and carried him to his mother. He lay on her lap until noon and died.
21 She took him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in alone, and left.
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