Bible, King James Version
2_Kings
2Kgs.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.
[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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