New English Translation

2 Kings 8:1-4 New English Translation (NET)

1. Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2. So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

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.

4. Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things which Elisha has done.”