II Kings 08 The Shunammite Returns to Her Land

 II Kings 08

The Shunammite Returns to Her Land

1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, go, you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn, for the Lord has called a famine, and it will also be on the land for seven years.”

2 So the woman arose and did as the man of God had said, and she and her household sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

3 And it came to pass at the end of seven years, that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and went to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

4 And the king spoke to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

 5 And it came to pass, as he told the king how he had restored a dead child, that, behold, the woman whose son he had restored cried to the king for her house and for her land. Then Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."

 6 And the king inquired of the woman, and she told him. Then the king appointed an officer to her, saying, "Restore to her all that was hers, and all the increase of the land from the day she left the land until now."