So the woman got ready and did what the man of God said. She and her household lived as resident foreigners in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
These nations included the five rulers of the Philistines and all of the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanese mountains from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath.
Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, ‘Get ready, you and your household, and go and live as a resident foreigner wherever you can. For the Lord has announced a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.’