2Ki 8:1-8 - Commentary

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Text -- 2 Kings 8:1-8 (NET)

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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, for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.” 8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 8:3 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. 8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.” 8:5 While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha 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. 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. The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, “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.”

Elisha Meets with Hazael

8:7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king was told, “The prophet has come here.” 8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Ben-hadad king of Syria during the time of King Asa of Judah,king of Syria during the time of King Ahab of Israel,king of Syria during the time of King Amaziah of Judah;,a title for Syrian kings when Babylon was rising to power

· Ben-Hadad king of Syria during the time of King Asa of Judah,king of Syria during the time of King Ahab of Israel,king of Syria during the time of King Amaziah of Judah;,a title for Syrian kings when Babylon was rising to power

· Damascus a city-state in Syria, located near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS),a town near Mt. Hermon at the edge of the Syrian desert (OS)

· Elisha a son of Shaphat; a prophet of the 9th century B.C. who succeeded the prophet Elijah,son of Shaphat of Abel-Meholah; successor of the prophet Elijah

· Gehazi a man servant of the prophet Elishah

· Hazael a king of Syria

· Philistines a sea people coming from Crete in 1200BC to the coast of Canaan

· Syria the country to the north of Palestine,a country of north western Mesopotamia

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NET Notes: 2Ki 8:1 Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:2 Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:3 Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:4 Heb “man of God’s.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:5 The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:6 Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:7 Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).

NET Notes: 2Ki 8:8 Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”

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