2 Kings 8:1-6

The Shunammite's Land Restored

1 Now Elisha had said to the woman q whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord r has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for s seven years." 2 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. 3 And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land. 4 Now the king was talking with t Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done." 5 And while he was telling the king how q Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life." 6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now."

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 4:35
    Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 105:16
    When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
    Haggai 1:11
    And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 41:27
    The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 4:12
    And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.
  5. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:1
    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.
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