2 Kings 4:14

4:14 So he asked Gehazi, “What can I do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”

2 Kings 4:26

4:26 Now, run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?’” She told Gehazi, “Everything’s fine.”

2 Kings 8:3

8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.

2 Kings 11:16

11:16 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.


tn Heb “and he said.”

tn Heb “she said.” The narrator streamlines the story at this point, omitting any reference to Gehazi running to meet her and asking her the questions.

tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went the way of the entrance of the horses [into] the house of the king.”