When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, bowed down and said, “Help, O king!”
2 Kings 8:3 - Tree of Life Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition At the end of the seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to appeal to the king for her house and land. American Standard Version (1901) And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. Common English Bible When seven years had passed, the woman returned from Philistia. She went to appeal to the king for her house and her farmland. Catholic Public Domain Version And when the seven years had ended, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. And she departed, so that she might petition the king on behalf of her house and on behalf of her fields. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to speak to the king for her house, and for her lands. |
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, bowed down and said, “Help, O king!”
He said to him, “Tell her: Behold, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can be done for you? Can something be communicated to the king or to the commander of the army for you?” She answered, “I am living among my own people.”
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him saying, “My lord the king, help!”
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.
Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, “Please tell me,” he was saying, “all the great things that Elisha has done.”
When the king asked the woman, she told him the story. So the king assigned to her a court official, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the revenue of the field since the day that she left the land until now.”
He pled the case of the poor and weak, so it went well. Is not this knowledge of Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
So she left the place where she was, along with her two daughters-in-law, and they started out on the road to return to the land of Judah.