2 Kings 8:3 At 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.

2 Kings 8:3

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New International Version (©1984)
At 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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
At the end of seven years, the woman came home from Philistine territory but left again to make an appeal to the king about her house and land.

King James Bible
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 King James 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 to the king for her house and for her land.

American 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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house, and for her lands.

Darby Bible Translation
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 to the king for her house and for her land.

English Revised 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.

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

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

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 {b} to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

(b) That is, to complain of them who had taken her possessions while she was absent.

8:3 Her house - Which having been forsaken by her, were possessed by her kindred.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land-In consequence of her long-continued absence from the country, her possessions were occupied by her kindred, or had been confiscated by the crown. No statute in the law of Moses ordained that alienation. But the innovation seems to have been adopted in Israel.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:1-6 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.

2 Kings 8:2 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

2 Kings 8:4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please relate to me all the great things that Elisha has done." (NASB ©1995)

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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.

A.M. 3119 B.C. 885 2Ki 8:6 4:13 6:26 2Sa 14:4 Ps 82:3,4 Jer 22:16 Lu 18:3-5

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