2 Kings 4:19

19 And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his 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 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.

21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.