2 Kings 8:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it happened at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went to plead to the king for her house and for her land.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it came to pass at the seven{H7651} years'{H8141} end,{H7097} that the woman{H802} returned{H7725} out of the land{H776} of the Philistines:{H6430} and she went forth{H3318} to cry{H6817} unto the king{H4428} for her house{H1004} and for her land.{H7704}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it came to pass at the seven{H7651} years{H8141}' end{H7097}, that the woman{H802} returned{H7725}{(H8799)} out of the land{H776} of the Philistines{H6430}: and she went forth{H3318}{(H8799)} to cry{H6817}{(H8800)} unto the king{H4428} for her house{H1004} and for her land{H7704}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But whan the seuen yeares were ended, the woman came agayne out of the Philistynes lode, and wente forth to crye vpon the kynge for hir house and londe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And at the seuen yeeres ende, the woman returned out of the lande of the Philistims, and went out to call vpon the King for her house and for her land.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And at the seuen yeres ende, it fortuned that the woman came againe out of the land of the Philistines, and went out to call vpon the king for her house and for her lande.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman turneth back from the land of the Philistines, and goeth out to cry unto the king, for her house, and for her field.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
  • 2 Kgs 4:13 : 13 And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? Would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.
  • 2 Kgs 6:26 : 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
  • 2 Kgs 8:6 : 6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.
  • Luke 18:3-5 : 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2
    2 verses
    89%

    1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go you and your household, and stay wherever you can stay: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land for seven years."

    2 And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me, I beg you, all the great things that Elisha has done."

    5 And it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life."

    6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

  • 2 Sam 14:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.

    2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a pot of oil.

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

    36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up your son.

    37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

  • 2 Kgs 4:12-18
    7 verses
    72%

    12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

    13 And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? Would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.

    14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no child, and her husband is old.

    15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

    16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.

    17 And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season that Elisha had said to her, according to the time of life.

    18 And when the child was grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live on the rest.

    8 And it happened one day, that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

    9 And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.

  • 2 Kgs 4:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 So she went and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:

    26 Run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

    27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD has hidden it from me, and has not told me.

  • Ruth 1:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, to return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

    7 Therefore she went out from where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

    8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

    9 The LORD grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voices and wept.

  • 2 Kgs 4:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22 And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the young men, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

    23 And he said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 2 Sam 14:3
    70%

    3 And come to the king, and speak in this manner to him. So Joab put words in her mouth.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
    70%

    5 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
    70%

    16 And her husband went with her, weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, Go, return. And he returned.

  • 2 Sam 14:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12 Then the woman said, Let your maidservant, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak on.

    13 And the woman said, Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king speaks this thing as one who is at fault, in that the king does not bring home again his banished.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15 Now therefore I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, because the people have made me afraid: and your maidservant said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant.

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • 2 Kgs 6:26
    69%

    26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

    18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin, and to kill my son?

  • Ruth 3:16
    69%

    16 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

  • Judg 11:38
    69%

    38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    69%

    1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    69%

    17 And one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I gave birth to a child with her in the house.

  • 1 Sam 1:18
    69%

    18 And she said, Let your maidservant find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no longer sad.

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
    69%

    26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive clothing, olive groves, and vineyards, sheep, oxen, male servants, and female servants?

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
    69%

    30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and he passed by on the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

  • Judg 11:36
    68%

    36 And she said to him, My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has proceeded out of your mouth; forasmuch as the LORD has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, even of the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Kgs 18:1
    68%

    1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.