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2 Kings 8:1 through 2 Kings 8:6 (NIV)
1Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go
away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD
has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.” 2The woman
proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed
in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines
and went to the king to beg for her house and land. 4The king was talking to
Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, “Tell me about all the
great things Elisha has done.” 5Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha
had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to
life came to beg the king for her house and land.
Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom
Elisha restored to life.” 6The king asked the woman about it, and she told him.
Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything
that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she
left the country until now.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-6
The kindness of the good Shunammite to Elisha, was rewarded by the care taken of
her in famine. It is well to foresee an evil, and wisdom, when we foresee it, to
hide ourselves if we lawfully may do so. When the famine was over, she returned
out of the land of the Philistines; that was no proper place for an Israelite,
any longer than there was necessity for it. Time was when she dwelt so securely
among her own people, that she had no occasion to be spoken for to the king; but
there is much uncertainty in this life, so that things or persons may fail us
which we most depend upon, and those befriend us which we think we shall never
need. Sometimes events, small in themselves, prove of consequence, as here; for
they made the king ready to believe Gehazi’s narrative, when thus confirmed. It
made him ready to grant her request, and to support a life which was given once
and again by miracle.
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