Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the woman arose and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both she and her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
New American Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
And 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.
Holman Bible
So the woman got ready and did what the man of God said. She and her household lived as foreigners in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
International Standard Version
So the woman followed the instructions given to her by the man of God, and she went to the territory of the Philistines to live for seven years with her household.
A Conservative Version
And 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.
American Standard Version
And 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.
Amplified
So the woman set out and did everything in accordance with the word of the man of God. She and her household went and
Bible in Basic English
So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
Darby Translation
And 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.
Julia Smith Translation
And the woman will rise and will do according to the word of the man of God: and will go, she and her house, and she will sojourn in the land of the rovers seven years.
King James 2000
And 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of [the] Philistines for seven years.
Modern King James verseion
And the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. And she went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
NET Bible
So the woman did as the prophet said. She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.
New Heart English Bible
The 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 Emphasized Bible
So the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God, - and took her journey, she and her household, and she sojourned in the land of the Philistines, seven years.
Webster
And 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.
World English Bible
The 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And 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.
Themes
Elisha » Prophecies of » Foretells » Seven years of famine in the land of canaan
Elisha » Causes the king to restore the property of the hospitable shunammite woman
Judge » Kings and other rulers as
Judgments » Preservation during--exemplified » Shunammite
Kings » Who reigned over israel » Jehoram, or joram
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 8:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joram Restores The Shunammite's Land
1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman whose son he had restored to life again, saying, "Up, and go both thou and thine house, and sojourn where thou thinkest best, for the LORD will call a dearth which shall come on the land seven years." 2 And the woman arose and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both she and her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. 3 And at the seven years' end, when the woman was come again out of the land of the Philistines she went out to speak to the king for her house and for her land.
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Cross References
Judges 3:3
he left the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Cananites, the Sidonians, the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon: even from mount Baalhermon unto Hamath.
1 Samuel 27:1-3
Then thought David in his heart, "I may perish, one day or other, by the hands of Saul. There is no better for me, than to flee into the land of the Philistines; that Saul, of very despair to find me, may cease to seek me anymore in all the coasts of Israel: for so I may escape his hand."
1 Timothy 5:8
If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.