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| 7:1 | 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. |
| 7:2 | 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. |
| 7:3 | 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? |
| 7:4 | 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. |
| 7:5 | 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.
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| 7:6 | 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.
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| 7:7 | 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. |
| 7:8 | 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. |
| 7:9 | 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. |
| 7:10 | 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. |
| 7:11 | And he called the porters; and they told it to the
king's house within. |
| 7:12 | 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. |
| 7:13 | 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. |
| 7:14 | They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king
sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. |
| 7:15 | 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. |
| 7:16 | 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. |
| 7:17 | 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. |
| 7:18 | 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: |
| 7:19 | 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. |
| 7:20 | And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode
upon him in the gate, and he died. |