2 Kings 8:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

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  • 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.
  • 2 Kgs 4:13 : 13 And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.
  • 2 Kgs 6:26 : 26 And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.
  • 2 Kgs 8:6 : 6 And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights. 4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.
  • Luke 18:3-5 : 3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong. 4 And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man, 5 Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2
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    89%

    1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

    2 So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Now, give me an account of all the great things Elisha has done.

    5 And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.

    6 And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.

  • 2 Sam 14:7-8
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    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

    8 And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
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    73%

    1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

    2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36 And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.

    37 And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:12-18
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    72%

    12 And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.

    13 And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

    14 So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

    15 Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.

    16 And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.

    17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

    18 Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7-9
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    72%

    7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

    8 Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.

    9 And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

  • 2 Kgs 4:25-27
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    72%

    25 So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;

    26 Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.

    27 And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

  • Ruth 1:6-9
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    71%

    6 So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

    7 And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.

    8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:

    9 May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-23
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    22 And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.

    23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
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    8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 2 Sam 14:3
    70%

    3 And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
    70%

    5 And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
    70%

    16 And her husband went with her as far as Bahurim, weeping while he went. Then Abner said to him, Go back. And he went back.

  • 2 Sam 14:12-13
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    12 Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.

    13 And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    69%

    15 And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.

    16 For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
    69%

    26 And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-18
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    17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

    18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

  • Ruth 3:16
    69%

    16 And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.

  • Judg 11:38
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    38 And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
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    17 And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

  • 1 Sam 1:18
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    18 And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad.

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
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    26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
    69%

    30 Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.

  • Judg 11:36
    68%

    36 And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1
    68%

    1 Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.