Holy Scripture
2 Kings 8:1
A church father on this verse
“"Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, 'Get up and go with your household.' " This is the Shunammite woman who had received Elisha in her home. And [the prophet] had taken care of her son too, who had died, by reviving him. Elisha predicted to her that a seven-year famine would occur and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1And Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy house, and sojourn wherever thou mayest sojourn: for the Lord has called for a famine upon the land; indeed it is come upon the land for seven years.
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— 2 Kings 8:1 —
2And the woman arose, and did according to the word of Elisha, both she and her house; and they sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
3And it came to pass after the expiration of the seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines to the city; and came to cry to the king for her house and for her lands.