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2 Kings 8:4-8 Good News Bible (GNB)

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.”

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