Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said,“ Look, your son is alive!”Then the woman said to Elijah,“ Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.” (niv)
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch.He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord.Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm.Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.Elisha summoned Gehazi and said,“ Call the Shunammite.” And he did. When she came, he said,“ Take your son.”She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out. (niv)
Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet. (niv)