2 Kings 4:18

18 When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.

2 Kings 4:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:18

And when the child was grown
Perhaps was six or seven years of age, or more:

it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers;
it was harvest time, and the men were reaping the corn in the fields; and his father, though a wealthy man, was with them to direct them, and see they did their business well, as Boaz formerly; and the child went out from the house to the field, to see his father and the reapers, for his recreation and diversion.

2 Kings 4:18 In-Context

16 And he said, "At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant."

17 But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Eli'sha had said to her.

18 When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.

19 And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20 And when he had lifted him, and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.