2 Kings 8:6

And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto 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.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto 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.

In Context

5And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him that was dead, 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.'

7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying. 'The man of God is come hither.'

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Cross References

Genesis 37:36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

Judges 11:13And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah: 'Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan; now therefore restore those cities peaceably.'

2 Kings 9:32And he lifted up his face to the window, and said: 'Who is on my side? who?' And there looked out to him two or three officers.

Proverbs 16:7When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh 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 →

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