2 Kings 8:3
Good News Translation
At the end of the seven years she returned to Israel and went to the king to ask that her house and her land be restored to her.

New Revised Standard Version
At the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she set out to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

Contemporary English Version
Then she returned to Israel and immediately begged the king to give back her house and property.

New American Bible
At the end of the seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went out to the king to appeal for her house and her field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house and for her lands.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house and for her lands.

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2 Kings 8:6 And the king asked the woman: and she told him. And the king appointed her an eunuch, saying: Restore her all that is hers, and all the revenues of the lands, from the day that she left the land to this present.

2 Kings 4:13 He said to his servant: Say to her: Behold, thou hast diligently served us in all things; what wilt thou have me to do for thee? Hast thou any business, and wilt thou, that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people.

2 Kings 6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord, O king.

2 Samuel 14:4 And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.

Psalm 82:3,4 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. . . .

Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?

Luke 18:3-5 And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary. . . .

Context
The Shunammite's Land Restored
2And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. 3And when the seven years were ended, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to speak to the king for her house and for her lands.4And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God, saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.…
Cross References
2 Kings 8:2
And she arose, and did according to the word of the man of God: and going with her household, she sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

2 Kings 8:4
And the king talked with Giezi, the servant of the man of God, saying: Tell me all the great things that Eliseus hath done.

2 Kings 8:2
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