After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:19"My head! My head!" he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
2 Kings 4:21And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
Treasury of Scripture
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
his mother
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Isaiah 66:13
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Luke 7:12
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
and then died
Genesis 22:2
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Genesis 37:3,5
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours…
1 Kings 17:17
And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
