²⁴ He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord.^(A) Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the children.

The Shunammite’s Land Restored

8 Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life,^(A) “Get ready, you and your household, and go live as a resident alien wherever you can. For the Lord has announced a seven-year famine,^(B) and it has already come to the land.”