2 Kings 8:5

5 While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha brought a dead child back to life, the mother [came to] make an appeal to the king about her house and land. Gehazi said, "Your Majesty, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life."

2 Kings 8:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 8:5

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life
Which was the Shunammite's son:

that, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life cried to the
king for her house, and for her land;
came and presented her petition to the king at that very instant:

and Gehazi said, my lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her
son, whom Elisha restored to life;
the very person I am speaking of.

2 Kings 8:5 In-Context

3 At the end of seven years, the woman came home from Philistine territory but left again to make an appeal to the king about her house and land.
4 The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God. He said, "Please tell me about all the great things Elisha has done."
5 While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha brought a dead child back to life, the mother [came to] make an appeal to the king about her house and land. Gehazi said, "Your Majesty, this is the woman, and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life."
6 When the king asked the woman [about this], she told him the story. So the king assigned to her an attendant to whom he said, "Restore all that is hers, including whatever her property produced from the day she left the country until now."
7 Elisha went to Damascus. King Benhadad of Aram, who was sick, was told, "The man of God has come here."
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