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.’
2 Kings 8:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
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.’
When the woman returned from the land of the Philistines at the end of seven years, she went to appeal to the king for her house and field.
But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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.