2 Kings 8:2

World English Bible (2000)

The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 3:3 : 3 [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
  • 1 Sam 27:1-3 : 1 David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand." 2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:3-7
    5 verses
    89%

    3It 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.

    4Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done."

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

    6When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to 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."

    7Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."

  • 2 Kgs 8:1
    88%

    1Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

  • 2 Kgs 4:5-9
    5 verses
    75%

    5So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.

    6It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.

    7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."

    8It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

    9She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

  • 1 Kgs 17:15
    75%

    15She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.

  • 2 Kgs 4:12-18
    7 verses
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    12He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.

    13He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

    14He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

    15He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door.

    16He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

    17The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

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

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

    36He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
    72%

    30The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8-10
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    71%

    8The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

    9"Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you."

    10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:21-25
    5 verses
    71%

    21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.

    22She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."

    23He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."

    24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don't slow down for me, unless I ask you to."

    25So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

  • Ruth 1:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him.

    18She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"

  • 2 Kgs 4:27
    70%

    27When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

  • 1 Sam 6:1
    69%

    1The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

  • 2 Kgs 5:2
    69%

    2The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

  • 2 Sam 14:8
    69%

    8The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you."

  • Ruth 1:18
    69%

    18When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

  • 2 Kgs 5:4
    69%

    4Someone went in, and told his lord, saying, "The maiden who is from the land of Israel said this."

  • Judg 11:38
    68%

    38He said, "Go." He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

  • 1 Sam 1:18
    68%

    18She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.

  • Judg 13:6
    68%

    6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name:

  • Josh 2:16
    68%

    16She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."

  • 2 Kgs 2:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1It happened, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

    2Elijah said to Elisha, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel." Elisha said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.

  • 1 Sam 7:7
    68%

    7When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

  • 1 Kgs 17:24
    67%

    24The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth."