2 Kings 8:3

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.

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  • 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 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 He 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."
  • 2 Kgs 6:26 : 26 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 When 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."
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."
  • Jer 22:16 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.
  • Luke 18:3-5 : 3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2
    2 verses
    89%

    1 Now 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 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.

  • 2 Kgs 8:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 Now 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."

    5 It 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."

    6 When 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."

  • 2 Sam 14:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

    8 The king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give a command 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. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

    2 Elisha 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 4:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36 He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come 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 she took up her son, and went out.

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

    12 He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.

    13 He 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."

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

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

    16 He 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."

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

    18 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. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."

    8 It 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.

    9 She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that 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. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

    26 Please run now to meet her, and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" She answered, "It is well."

    27 When 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."

  • Ruth 1:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6 Then 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.

    7 She 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.

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

    9 Yahweh 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 voice, and wept.

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

    22 She 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."

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 2 Sam 14:3
    70%

    3 Go in to the king, and speak like this to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
    70%

    5 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
    70%

    16 Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed 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, "Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Say on."

    13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

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

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

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of 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 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 It 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.

    18 She 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!"

  • Ruth 3:16
    69%

    16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done to her.

  • Judg 11:38
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    69%

    1 It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    69%

    17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

  • 1 Sam 1:18
    69%

    18 She 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.

  • 2 Kgs 5:26
    69%

    26 He said to him, "Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
    69%

    30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

  • Judg 11:36
    68%

    36 She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

  • 1 Kgs 18:1
    68%

    1 It happened after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."