KJV King James Version
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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2 Kings 8:2
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines.
WEB World English Bible
The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
ASV American Standard Version
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the woman riseth, and doth according to the word of the man of God, and goeth, she and her household, and sojourneth in the land of the Philistines seven years.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 8
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3 And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
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וַתָּ֙קָם֙H6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamaiהָֽאִשָּׁ֔הH802 · ish.shahwomanוַתַּ֕עַשׂH6213 · a.sahto make: doכִּדְבַ֖רH1697 · da.varwordאִ֣ישׁH376 · ishmanהָאֱלֹהִ֑יםH430 · e.lo.himGodוַתֵּ֤לֶךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentהִיא֙H1931 · huhe/she/itוּבֵיתָ֔הּH1004 · betplaceוַתָּ֥גָרH1481 · gurto sojournבְּאֶֽרֶץ־H776 · e.retsland: country/planetפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖יםH6430 · pe.lish.tiPhilistineשֶׁ֥בַעH7651 · she.vasevenשָׁנִֽים׃H8141 · sha.nehyear
Cross-references
1 Timothy 5:8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.Judges 3:3[Namely], five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.1 Samuel 27:1-3And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
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