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2 Kings 8:5-7
New English Translation
2 Kings 8:5-7
New English Translation
5 While Gehazi[a] was telling the king how Elisha[b] had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field.[c] Gehazi said, “My master, O king, this is the very woman, and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!” 6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.[d] The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,[e] “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.”
Elisha Meets with Hazael
7 Elisha traveled to Damascus while King Ben Hadad of Syria was sick. The king[f] was told, “The prophet[g] has come here.”
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- 2 Kings 8:5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gehazi) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Kings 8:5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Kings 8:5 tn Heb “and look, the woman whose son he had brought back to life was crying out to the king for her house and her field.”sn The legal background of the situation is uncertain. For a discussion of possibilities, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 87-88.
- 2 Kings 8:6 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
- 2 Kings 8:6 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
- 2 Kings 8:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Kings 8:7 tn Heb “man of God” (also a second time in this verse and in v. 11).
2 Kings 8:5-7
New International Version
2 Kings 8:5-7
New International Version
5 Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored(A) the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to 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.” 6 The 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.”
Hazael Murders Ben-Hadad
7 Elisha went to Damascus,(B) and Ben-Hadad(C) king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,”
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