2 Kings 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 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, 1  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Kings 8:5

8:5 While Gehazi 2  was telling the king how Elisha 3  had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. 4  Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”

1 tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

4 tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

sn The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.