列王纪下 8:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

書念婦人復得她的產業以利沙告訴那婦人（她的兒子曾被以利沙救活），說：“你和你全家要動身，離開這裡，住在你可以寄居的地方，因為耶和華宣布了將有饑荒，這饑荒要臨到這地七年。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 利 沙 曾 对 所 救 活 之 子 的 那 妇 人 说 ： 你 和 你 的 全 家 要 起 身 往 你 可 住 的 地 方 去 住 ， 因 为 耶 和 华 命 饥 荒 降 在 这 地 七 年 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. He said, "Get up and go with your family. Stay any place you can, because the Lord has called for a time without food that will last seven years." ² So the woman got up and did as the man of God had said. She left with her family, and they stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years. ³ After seven years she returned from the land of the Philistines and went to beg the king for her house and land. ⁴ The king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God. The king had said, "Please tell me all the great things Elisha has done." ⁵ Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought a dead boy back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came and begged the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, "My master and king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha brought back to life." ⁶ The king asked the woman, and she told him about it. Then the king chose an officer to help her. "Give the woman everything that is hers," the king said. "Give her all the money made from her land from the day she left until now."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3113, bc 891

whose son: 2 Kings 4:18, 2 Kings 4:31-35

sojourn: Genesis 12:10, Genesis 26:1, Genesis 47:4, Ruth 1:1

the Lord: Genesis 41:25, Genesis 41:28, Genesis 41:32, Leviticus 26:19, Leviticus 26:20, Leviticus 26:26, Deuteronomy 28:22-24, Deuteronomy 28:38-40, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:2, Psalms 105:16, Psalms 107:34, Haggai 1:11, Luke 21:11, Luke 21:22, Acts 11:28

called for a famine: Jeremiah 25:29

seven years: Genesis 41:27, 2 Samuel 21:1, 2 Samuel 24:13, Luke 4:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:30 - seven years 2 Kings 4:13 - among mine 2 Kings 4:35 - and the child opened 2 Kings 4:38 - a dearth 1 Chronicles 21:12 - three years' famine 2 Chronicles 6:28 - if there be dearth Amos 4:6 - and want

Cross-References

Genesis 8:7
he sent out a raven. It flew here and there until the water had dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:9
The dove could not find a place to land because water still covered the earth, so it came back to the boat. Noah reached out his hand and took the bird and brought it back into the boat.

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord . He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.

Genesis 8:22
"As long as the earth continues, planting and harvest, cold and hot, summer and winter, day and night will not stop."

Genesis 19:29
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had asked. So God saved Lot's life, but he destroyed the city where Lot had lived.

Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel and answered her prayer, making it possible for her to have children.

Exodus 2:24
God heard their cries, and he remembered the agreement he had made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 14:21
Then Moses held his hand over the sea. All that night the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind, making the sea become dry ground. The water was split,

Numbers 22:32
The angel of the Lord asked Balaam, "Why have you hit your donkey three times? I have stood here to stop you, because what you are doing is wrong.

1 Samuel 1:19
Early the next morning Elkanah's family got up and worshiped the Lord . Then they went back home to Ramah. Elkanah had sexual relations with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then spoke Elisha unto the woman (whose son he had restored to life),.... His hostess at Shunem, 2 Kings 4:8 the following he said to her, not after the famine in Samaria, but before it, as some circumstances show:

saying, arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; with the greatest safety to her person and property, and with the least danger to her moral and religious character:

for the Lord hath called for a famine, and it shall also come upon the land seven years: which Jarchi says was the famine that was in the days of Joel; it was, undoubtedly, on account of the idolatry of Israel, and was double the time of that in the days of Elijah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The famine here recorded, and the conversation of the monarch with Gehazi, must have been anterior to the events related in 2 Kings 5:0 since we may be sure that a king of Israel would not have entered into familiar conversation with a confirmed leper. The writer of Kings probably col ected the miracles of Elisha from various sources, and did not always arrange them chronologically. Here the link of connection is to be found in the nature of the miracle. As Elisha on one occasion prophesied plenty, so on another he had prophesied a famine.

Called for a famine - A frequent expression (compare the marginal references). God’s “calling for” anything is the same as His producing it (see Ezekiel 36:29; Romans 4:17).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

Account of the sojourning of the Shunammite in the land of the

Philistines, during the seven years famine, 1, 2.

She returns, and solicits the king to let her have back her

land; which, with its fruits, he orders to be restored to her,

3-6.

Elisha comes to Damascus, and finds Ben-hadad sick; who sends

his servant Hazael to the prophet to inquire whether he shall

recover, 7-9.

Elisha predicts his death, tells Hazael that he shall be king,

and shows him the atrocities he will commit, 10-14.

Hazael returns, stifles his master with a wet cloth, and reigns

in his stead, 15.

Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, becomes king over Judah; his bad

reign, 16-19.

Edom and Libnah revolt, 20-22.

Jehoram dies, and his son Ahaziah reigns in his stead, 23, 24.

His bad reign, 23-24.

He joins with Joram, son of Ahab, against Hazael; Joram is

wounded by the Syrians, and goes to Jezreel to be healed,

28, 29.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII

Verse 2 Kings 8:1. Then spake Elisha — As this is the relation of an event far past, the words should be translated, "But Elisha had spoken unto the woman whose son he had restored unto life; and the woman had arisen, and acted according to the saying of the man of God, and had gone with her family, and had sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years." What is mentioned in these two verses happened several years before the time specified in the third verse. See the observations at the end of the preceding chapter. 2 Kings 7:17.