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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 8:1–6, “Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life. And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
When the Lord first gave the Promised Land to Israel He told Joshua to allocate a separate portion of the Land to each family that went into the Land. This land was to belong that that family in perpetuity and there was a system whereby the property was to be returned to each family in the fiftieth year. Remembering this, Elisha told the woman whose son he had revived from death to go away because the Lord was bringing a famine to the Land. The Lord was still acting with love and grace towards Israel and giving them further opportunities to repent of their sin and be restored to their faith in the Lord. The woman left and lived in Philistia for seven years until the drought was over. At one stage the king was asking some of his advisors about Elisha and all the things that he had done. One man told the king about Elisha and boy he brought back to life. Just as the man was relating that piece of history the woman came to see the king. She had come back to her home and wanted to have title to her land again. The king asked her what had happened and she confirmed that Elisha had been the Lord’s agent in bringing her son back to life again. The king ordered that she be given her land and all the profits from her land for the seven years that she had been away.
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