2 Kings 8:6
And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
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Genesis 37:36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
Judges 11:13And the king of the sons of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore those [lands] agai
2 Kings 9:32And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked out to him.
Proverbs 16:7When a man's ways please LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 8:2-7
A Famine in Israel; the Shunammite's Possessions Restored. ( b. c. 886.) 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… Read the whole commentary →