Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8 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,^[a] for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.” ² So the woman did as the prophet said.^[b] 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.^{[c] 4} Now the king was talking to Gehazi, the prophet’s^[d] servant, and said, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.” ⁵ While Gehazi^[e] was telling the king how Elisha^[f] 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.^[g] 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.^[h] The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,^[i] “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.”