2 Kings 8:2-8

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ¹  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. ²  8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ³  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.” 8:5 While Gehazi ⁴  was telling the king how Elisha ⁵  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. ⁶  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. ⁷  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁸  “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 ⁹  was told, “The prophet ¹⁰  has come here.” 8:8 So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift ¹¹  and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ¹²  ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

[8:3]  ² tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

[8:4]  ³ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[8:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”

[8:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).

[8:8]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has “in your hand.”

[8:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “Inquire of the Lord through him, saying.”