2 Kings 8:3-6

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. ¹  8:4 Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s ²  servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.” 8:5 While Gehazi ³  was telling the king how Elisha ⁴  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. ⁵  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. ⁶  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ⁷  “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.”

[8:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”

[8:4]  ² tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[8:5]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[8:5]  ⁵ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”