2 Kings 4:20

20 The servant picked him up and brought him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, when he died.

2 Kings 4:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 4:20

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother
The lad led him home, and delivered him to his mother:

he sat on her knees till noon, and then died;
out of her great affection, she took him on her knees, and laid his head in her bosom to sooth the pain, and in this posture he continued until the middle of the day, and then expired; by which it appears it was in the morning when he went into the field, and when the sun was pretty high, and beat strongly on him; which, it may be, produced a fever, and which issued in his death.

2 Kings 4:20 In-Context

18 Several years later the boy went to his father, who was with the harvest workers.

19 [Suddenly,] he said to his father, "My head! My head!" The father told his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

20 The servant picked him up and brought him to his mother. The boy sat on her lap until noon, when he died.

21 She took him upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God, left [the room], and shut the door behind her.

22 She called her husband and said, "Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys. I will go quickly to the man of God and come back again."