“Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.””

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.