Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 14:4 : 4 So the Tekoan woman went to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said,“Please help me, O king!”
• 2 Kgs 4:13 : 13 Elisha said to Gehazi,“Tell her,‘Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?’” She replied,“I’m quite secure.”
• 2 Kgs 6:26 : 26 While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him,“Help us, my master, O king!”
• 2 Kgs 8:6 : 6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,“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.”
• Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering! 4 Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!
• Jer 22:16 : 16 He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’
• Luke 18:3-5 : 3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying,‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, 5 yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”