2 Kings 8:1

The Shunammite's Land Restored

1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman a whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the LORD b has called for a c famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years."

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 4:18
    And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers.
    2 Kings 4:31 - 35
    Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 105:16
    Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread.
    Haggai 1:11
    "For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands."
  3. Cross References
    2 Samuel 21:1
    Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, " It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.
    1 Kings 18:2
    So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.
    2 Kings 4:38
    And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
    2 Kings 6:25
    And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
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