Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Ulen, Minnesota
February 7, 2012

2 Kings 8:1-6 (NRSV)

The Shunammite widow's land
restored

Now Elisha had said to the
woman whose son he had
restored to life, "Get up and go
with your household, and settle
wherever you can; for the Lord
has called for a famine, and it will
come on the land for seven
years." So the woman got up and
did according to the word of the
man of God; she went with her
household and settled in the land
of the Philistines seven years. 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. Now the king was
talking with Gehazi the servant of
the man of God, saying, "Tell me
all the great things that Elisha has
done." While he was telling the
king how Elisha had restored a
dead person to life, the woman
whose son he had restored to life
appealed to the king for her
house and her land. Gehazi said,
"My lord king, here is the woman,
and here is her son whom Elisha
restored to life." When the king
questioned the woman, she told
him. So the king appointed an
official for her, saying, "Restore
all that was hers, together with all
the revenue of the fields from the
day that she left the land until
now."