Then spoke Elisha unto the woman (whose son he had restored
 to life)
 His hostess at Shunem, ( 2 Kings 4:8-17 ) the following he said to her, not after the famine in Samaria, but before it, as some circumstances show: 
 saying, arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever
 thou canst sojourn;
 with the greatest safety to her person and property, and with the least danger to her moral and religious character: 
 for the Lord hath called for a famine, and it shall also come upon the
 land seven years:
 which Jarchi says was the famine that was in the days of Joel; it was, undoubtedly, on account of the idolatry of Israel, and was double the time of that in the days of Elijah.