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.
4. She found the king talking with Gehazi, Elisha's servant; the king wanted to know about Elisha's miracles.
5. While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought a dead person back to life, the woman made her appeal to the king. Gehazi said to him, “Your Majesty, here is the woman and here is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!”
6. In answer to the king's question, she confirmed Gehazi's story, and so the king called an official and told him to give back to her everything that was hers, including the value of all the crops that her fields had produced during the seven years she had been away.
7. Elisha went to Damascus at a time when King Benhadad of Syria was ill. When the king was told that Elisha was there,
8. he said to Hazael, one of his officials, “Take a gift to the prophet, and ask him to consult the Lord to find out whether or not I am going to get well.”
9. So Hazael loaded forty camels with all kinds of the finest products of Damascus and went to Elisha. When Hazael met him, he said, “Your servant King Benhadad has sent me to ask you whether or not he will recover from his illness.”