2 Kings 4:19

19 Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the 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 {in the spring}, which Elisha had promised to her.

18 The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.

19 Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20 So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died.

21 She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed [the door], and went out behind it.