2 Kings 8:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² 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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² 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.

2 Kings 8:2 Cross References

2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Get up and go with your household and settle wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come on the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 8:3

At the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she set out to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

1 Timothy 5:8

And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Judges 3:3

the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.