2 Raja-raja 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 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, ¹  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Raja-raja 4:32-37

4:32 When Elisha arrived at the house, there was ²  the child lying dead on his bed. 4:33 He went in by himself and closed the door. ³  Then he prayed to the Lord. 4:34 He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ⁴  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ⁵  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ⁶  grew warm. 4:35 Elisha ⁷  went back and walked around in the house. ⁸  Then he got up on the bed again ⁹  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. 4:36 Elisha ¹⁰  called to Gehazi and said, “Get the Shunammite woman.” So he did so ¹¹  and she came to him. He said to her, “Take your son.” 4:37 She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.

[8:1]  ¹ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

[4:32]  ² tn Heb “look.”

[4:33]  ³ tn Heb “and closed the door behind the two of them.”

[4:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “he went up and lay down over.”

[4:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “his” (also in the next two clauses).

[4:34]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “body”; Heb “flesh.”

[4:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[4:36]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:36]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he called for her.”