2 Kings 8:2 - Easy To Read Version

² So the woman did what the man of God [92] said. She went with her family to stay in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² So the woman arose and did as the man of God had said. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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.

Common English Bible

² So the woman went and did what the man of God asked. She and her household moved away, living in Philistia seven years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And she rose up, and she acted in accord with the word of the man of God. And going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.

2 Kings 8:2 Cross References

2 Kings 8:1

Elisha talked to the woman whose son he had brought back to life. Elisha said, “You and your family should move to another country. Why? Because the Lord has decided that there will be a time of hunger here. This time of hunger will be in this country for seven years.”

2 Kings 8:3

After the seven years were finished, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines.

1 Timothy 5:8

A person should take care of all his own people. Most important, he should take care of his own family. If a person does not do that, then he does not accept the \{true\} faith (teaching). That person is worse than a person who does not believe.

Judges 3:3

the five rulers of the Philistine people, all of the Canaanite people, the people of Sidon, and the Hivite people that lived in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.