2 Kings 4:28
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?.... It was not at her request she had one, at least the first motion was not from her; the prophet first told her, and assured her she should have one, without her asking for it; she might be pleased with it, and desire the promise might be fulfilled; but it was not an inordinate, importunate, desire of one, in which she had exceeded, that so the taking it away from her might be a correction of her for it:
did I not say, Do not deceive me; by giving hopes of a child, and yet have none; and now it was equally the same, or worse, to have one, and then to have it taken away again as soon as had almost; so the Targum,
"did I not say unto thee, if a child is given me, let it live, if not, do not trouble or grieve me;''
and then, no doubt, she told him plainly the child was dead, and where she had laid it, though not recorded.