2 Kings 7
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1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye
the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall
a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley
for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2 Then a lord on whose hand the king
leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make
windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it
with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3 And there were four leprous
men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we
here until we die?
4 If we say, We will enter into the city,
then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit
still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of
the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall
but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go
unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of
the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the
Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the
noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath
hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to
come upon us.
7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the
twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp
as it was, and fled for their life.
8 And when these lepers came to the
uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and
carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and
came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and
went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not
well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we
tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore
come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
10 So they came and called unto the porter
of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians,
and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses
tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
11 And he called the porters; and they
told it to the king’s house within.
12 And the king arose in the
night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have
done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of
the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the
city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
13 And one of his servants answered and
said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which
are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel
that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the
multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
14 They took therefore two chariot horses;
and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them unto Jordan:
and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians
had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled
the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the
LORD.
17 And the king appointed the lord on
whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the
king came down to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of God
had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a
measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the
gate of Samaria:
19 And that lord answered the man of God,
and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might
such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but
shalt not eat thereof.
20 And so it fell out unto him: for the
people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
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