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Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while,[a] for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.” So the woman did as the prophet said.[b] She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 8:1 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”
  2. 2 Kings 8:2 tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”