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2 Kings 8:5

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And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him that was dead, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

KJV

And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

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Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

all the great things Elisha has done

on 2 Kings 8:4-6

Gehazi is telling the king “all the great things Elisha has done” when the woman walks in. His words, “this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life”, prove her claim before she speaks. The king restores her land and all its proceeds.

This site's exposition

this is the woman

The woman comes to press the claim Albert Barnes describes, for a house and fields someone had seized while she lived in Philistia. Her son comes with her. Gehazi names them both as living proof of the story he is telling.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We may wonder that the king of Syria, in his sickness, should make Elisha his oracle. Notice was soon brought him that the man of God (for by that title he was well known in Syria since he cured Naaman) had come to Damascus,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the king talked with Gehazi--Ceremonial pollution being conveyed by contact alone, there was nothing to prevent a conference being held with this leper at a distance; and although he was excluded from the town of Samaria, this reported conversation may have taken place at the gate or in one of the royal gardens.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

This is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life - This was a very providential occurrence in behalf of the Shunammite. The relation given by Gehazi was now corroborated by the woman herself; the king was duly affected, and gave immediate orders for the restoration of her land.

The words behind it

33 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַ֠יְהִיand he was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • ה֥וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • מְסַפֵּ֣רrecounting

    mesaperH5608 →159 times

  • לַמֶּלֶךְ֮to the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־this:

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הֶחֱיָ֣הhe had restored to life

    hecheyahH2421 →282 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמֵּת֒the dead [one]

    hametH4191 →839 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֨הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • הָאִשָּׁ֜הthe woman

    haishahH802 →781 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־whom

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הֶחֱיָ֤הhe had restored to life

    hecheyahH2421 →282 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּנָהּ֙son her

    benahH1121 →4930 times

  • צֹעֶ֣קֶת[was] crying out for help

    tzoeketH6817 →55 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • בֵּיתָ֖הּhouse her

    beitahH1004 →2046 times

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שָׂדָ֑הּfield her

    sadahH7704 →334 times

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • גֵּֽחֲזִי֙Gehazi

    gechaziH1522 →12 times

  • אֲדֹנִ֣יO lord my

    ʾadoniH113 →333 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • זֹ֚אתthis

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה[is] the woman

    haishahH802 →781 times

  • וְזֶה־and this

    vezeh-H2088 →1180 times

  • בְּנָ֖הּ[is] son her

    benahH1121 →4930 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־whom

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • הֶחֱיָ֥הhe restored to life

    hecheyahH2421 →282 times

  • אֱלִישָֽׁע׃Elisha

    ʾelisha'H477 →58 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

13 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 4:35Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.4 worksMatthew 10:29–30Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.3 worksActs 8:27–40So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,2 works2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”2 worksProverbs 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.2 worksRuth 2:3So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.2 works
The other 7 cross-references, with their words ▾
Esther 6:11–12So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”2 worksPsalms 145:1I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.2 works1 Samuel 26:17Then Saul recognized David’s voice and asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” “It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.2 worksEsther 5:14His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.2 worksEcclesiastes 9:11I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.2 worksRomans 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?2 works2 Kings 6:12But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Proverbs 16:9

    A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 19:21

      Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

    • Psalms 37:23

      The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.

    • Proverbs 16:1

      The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

    • Proverbs 20:24

      A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

    • Jeremiah 10:23

      I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

  • Through

    2 Kings 4:35

    Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 13:21

      Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of…

  • Through

    2 Kings 6:26

    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 14:4

      When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

    • Acts 21:28

      crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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