2 Kings 7
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Then Eli'sha said, Hear ye the word of
the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, Tomorrow 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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
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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.
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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 Isrealites that are
consumed:) and let us send and see.
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They took therefore two chariot horses;
and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and
see.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 tomorrow about this
time in the gate of Samaria:
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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.
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And so it fell out unto him: for the
people trode upon him in the gate, and he
died.
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