2Ki 8:1-2 - Commentary

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Text -- 2 Kings 8:1-2 (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.

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Names, People and Places:

· 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

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

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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.”

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