²⁹ So we made my son ready to eat over the fire, and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, so we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.” ³⁰ When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. He was passing by on the wall, and the people looked. They saw that he wore cloth made from hair under his clothes. ³¹ Then he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”