8 One day Elisha spoke to the Shunammite woman whose son he’d brought back to life, “Pack up and leave here, you and your household, and go and stay somewhere else, because Yahweh’s going to send a seven-year drought.” 2 So the woman got up, and she did what the man of God told her: She packed up her household and left to go and live in the Philistines’ region for seven years.

3 Then eventually after seven years, the woman returned from the Philistines’ region and she went to petition the king about her house and land. 4 When she arrived, the king had asked Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, “Please tell me all the incredible things that Elisha has done.” 5 Then Gehazi was telling the king that Elisha had made the dead live, and how the woman who he made her son live was petitioning the king on behalf of her house and her field. Then Gehazi exclaimed, “My master, the king, this is the woman, and that’s her son, who Elisha made live!” 6 So the king questioned the woman and she told him her story. Then the king appointed a court official to attend to her case, saying, “Return everything that belongs to her plus the profit from her field from the day she left until now.”