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.


In Context

1 Now 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."

2 The 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.

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.

4 The 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."

2nd Kings 8:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:2And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:2And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2And the woman rose up, and did according to the saying of the man of God, and went, she and her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:2And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2The 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:2And the woman riseth, and doth according to the word of the man of God, and goeth, she and her household, and sojourneth in the land of the Philistines seven years.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:2And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.