书念妇人得回产业

以利沙曾经救活了一位书念妇人的儿子。他对那妇人说:“你和家人要离开这里去别处寄居,因为耶和华已决定使这里遭受七年饥荒。” 那妇人遵照上帝仆人的话,举家迁往非利士,在那里寄居了七年。 七年后,她从非利士返回,去向王请求收回自己的房屋和田地。 那时,王正与上帝仆人的侍者基哈西谈话,让基哈西把以利沙所做的一切大事讲给他听。 基哈西正在向王讲述以利沙如何使死人复活的时候,那位书念妇人刚好进宫求见王,基哈西便说:“我主我王,这就是那妇人,这是她那个被以利沙救活的儿子。” 王问那妇人,她便原原本本地将那件事禀告王。王委派一位臣仆处理她的事情,并吩咐说:“凡属于这妇人的东西,包括从她离开本地直到今天她田地的所有出产,要全部还给她。”

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The Shunammite’s Land Restored

Now Elisha had said to the woman(A) 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(B) in the land that will last seven years.”(C) 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.

At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land. 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.” Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored(D) 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.” 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.”

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Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

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.

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.

And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

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