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2 Kings 8:2

So the woman set out and did everything in accordance with the word of the man of God. She and her household went and stayed temporarily as foreigners in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elisha;   Judge;   King;   Land;   Property;   Ramoth-Gilead;   Thompson Chain Reference - Philistia;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Famine;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Famine;   Gehazi;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Famine;   Gehazi;   Shunem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elisha;   Palestine;   Philistia;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Gehazi;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Uriah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Poverty;   Shunem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Famine;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ramothgilead;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Famine;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sephe'la,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Daniel, Book of;   Gehazi;   Judah, Territory of;   Relationships, Family;   Shunammite;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the woman got ready and did what the man of God said. She and her household lived as resident aliens in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
Hebrew Names Version
The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Pelishtim seven years.
King James Version
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
English Standard Version
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.
New Century Version
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.
New English Translation
So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
New American Standard Bible
So the woman arose and acted in accordance with the word of the man of God: she went with her household and resided in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both shee and her housholde and soiourned in the lande of the Philistims seuen yeeres.
Legacy Standard Bible
So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Contemporary English Version
The woman did exactly what Elisha had said and went to live in Philistine territory. She and her family lived there seven years.
Complete Jewish Bible
The woman acted at once and did as the man of God had said — she went with her household and stayed in the land of the P'lishtim for seven years.
Darby Translation
And the woman rose up, and did according to the saying of the man of God, and went, she and her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the woman did what the man of God said. She went with her family to stay in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
George Lamsa Translation
So the woman arose and did according to the word of the prophet of God; and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Good News Translation
She had followed his instructions and had gone with her family to live in Philistia for the seven years.
Lexham English Bible
So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
Literal Translation
And the woman rose up and did according to the word of the man of God. And she and her household went and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The woman gat her vp, and dyd as the man of God sayde, & wente with hir housholde, and was a straunger in the londe of the Philistynes seuen yeare.
American Standard Version
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Bible in Basic English
So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the woman arose, and dyd after the saying of the man of God, and went both she and her houshold, & soiourned in the land of the Philistines seue yeres.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
King James Version (1611)
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her housholde, and soiourned in the land of the Philistines seuen yeeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of Elisaie, both she and her house; and they sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
English Revised Version
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Berean Standard Bible
So the woman got ready and did as the man of God had instructed. She and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And sche roos, and dide bi the word of the man of God; and sche yede with hir hows, and was in pilgrimage in the lond of Philistym many daies.
Young's Literal Translation
And the woman riseth, and doth according to the word of the man of God, and goeth, she and her household, and sojourneth in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Update Bible Version
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
World English Bible
The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
New King James Version
So the woman arose and did according to the saying of the man of God, and she went with her household and dwelt in the land of the Philistines seven years.
New Living Translation
So the woman did as the man of God instructed. She took her family and settled in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
New Life Bible
So the woman got ready as the man of God had told her. She went with those of her house and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.
New Revised Standard
So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and settled in the land of the Philistines seven years.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God, - and took her journey, she and her household, and she sojourned in the land of the Philistines, seven years.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
Revised Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

Contextual Overview

1Now Elisha had said to the [Shunammite] woman whose son he had restored to life, "Prepare and go, you and your household, and stay temporarily wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine, and moreover, it will come on the land [and continue] for seven years." 2So the woman set out and did everything in accordance with the word of the man of God. She and her household went and stayed temporarily as foreigners in the land of the Philistines for seven years.3At the end of the seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went to appeal to the king [of Israel] for her house and for her land. 4Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done." 5And [just] as Gehazi was telling the king how 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 for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life." 6When the king asked the woman, she told him [everything]. So the king appointed for her a certain high official, saying, "Restore everything that was hers, including all the produce of the field since the day that she left the land until now."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with: 1 Timothy 5:8

land: Judges 3:3, 1 Samuel 27:1-3

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:10 - went Ruth 1:1 - a famine Jeremiah 35:4 - a man Acts 11:28 - great

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 8:11
The dove came back to him in the evening, and there, in her beak, was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water level had subsided from the earth.
Genesis 8:13
Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah's life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.
Job 38:37
"Who can count the clouds by [earthly] wisdom, Or pour out the water jars of the heavens,
Proverbs 8:28
When He made firm the skies above, When the fountains and springs of the deep became fixed and strong,
Jonah 2:3
"For You cast me into the deep, Into the [deep] heart of the seas, And the currents surrounded and engulfed me; All Your breakers and billowing waves passed over me.
Matthew 8:9
"For I also am a man subject to authority [of a higher rank], with soldiers subject to me; and I say to one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God,.... Whose words she had reason to believe; she having a son given to her according to his word, and this restored to life, when dead, through his intercession:

and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines; which was not far from her native place, and where there was plenty of food, and she could have as free an exercise of her religion as in the idolatrous kingdom of Israel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The country of the Philistines - the rich low grain-growing plain along the seacoast of Judah - was always a land of plenty compared with the highlands of Palestine. Moreover, if food failed there, it was easily imported by sea from the neighboring Egypt.


 
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