Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life saying, “Arise and go with your household, and stay wherever you can stay, because Adonai has called for a famine—indeed it has already come—on the land for seven years.”
2 Kings 8:2 - Tree of Life Version So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and stayed 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. |
Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life saying, “Arise and go with your household, and stay wherever you can stay, because Adonai has called for a famine—indeed it has already come—on the land for seven years.”
Now at the end of seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to the king to appeal for her house and her farm.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, especially those in his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
These nations included the five Philistine lords, and all the Canaanites, Zidonians and the Hivites living in the hill country of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath.