|
Fill out for free KJV Bible e-Book
& News from eBibleProductions.com about using today's technology to spread God's
Word. Your e-mail address will be kept absolutely confidential and we
promise it will not be shared with any other party.
|
|
  |
|
         |
2KI-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.
2KI-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.
2KI-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?
2KI-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.
2KI-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.
2KI-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.
2KI-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.
2KI-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].
2KI-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.
2KI-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].
2KI-7:11 And he called the porters; and they told [it] to the
king's house within.
2KI-7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his
servants, I will now show 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.
2KI-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.
2KI-7:14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king
sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
2KI-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.
2KI-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.
2KI-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.
2KI-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:
2KI-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.
2KI-7:20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon
him in the gate, and he died.
|
