Discovery Box2 Kings 8:3-6 
Context8:3 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. 1 8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s 2 servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.” 8:5 While Gehazi 3 was telling the king how Elisha 4 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. 5 Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!” 8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 6 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 7 “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”
1 tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”
2 tn Heb “man of God’s.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 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.
6 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
7 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
