SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:2
Entonces la mujer se levantó, e hizo como el varón de Dios le dijo; y se partió ella con su familia, y vivió en tierra de los filisteos siete años.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God , etc.] Whose words she had reason to believe; she having a son given to her according to his word, and this restored to life, when dead, through his intercession: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines ; which was not far from her native place, and where there was plenty of food, and she could have as free an exercise of her religion as in the idolatrous kingdom of Israel.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - The kindness of the good Shunammite to Elisha, was rewarded by the car taken of her in famine. It is well to foresee an evil, and wisdom, when we foresee it, to hide ourselves if we lawfully may do so. When the famine was over, she returned out of the land of the Philistines; tha was no proper place for an Israelite, any longer than there wa necessity for it. Time was when she dwelt so securely among her ow people, that she had no occasion to be spoken for to the king; but there is much uncertainty in this life, so that things or persons ma fail us which we most depend upon, and those befriend us which we thin we shall never need. Sometimes events, small in themselves, prove of consequence, as here; for they made the king ready to believe Gehazi' narrative, when thus confirmed. It made him ready to grant her request and to support a life which was given once and again by miracle.
Original Hebrew
ותקם 6965 האשׁה 802 ותעשׂ 6213 כדבר 1697 אישׁ 376 האלהים 430 ותלך 1980 היא 1931 וביתה 1004 ותגר 1481 בארץ 776 פלשׁתים 6430 שׁבע 7651 שׁנים׃ 8141
