Shunammite Woman's Land Restored
- Dates
- 832 BC
Elisha warns the woman of Shunem there will be a 7—year famine. She leaves Israel, lives with the Philistines, comes back & the king has ownership of her land. She comes to the king as Gehazi is telling of her son's miracle. He restores her land.
Bible passages
- 2 Kings 8:1-6
1 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. 2 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. 3 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. …
Text of the King James Version.