1. Now Elisha had told the woman who lived in Shunem, whose son he had brought back to life, that the Lord was sending a famine on the land, which would last for seven years, and that she should leave with her family and go and live somewhere else.
2. She had followed his instructions, and had gone with her family to live in Philistia for the seven years.
3. At the end of the seven years, she returned to Israel and went to the king to ask for her house and her land to be restored to her.