2 Kings 7 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

2Ki 7:1

Then Elisha^H477 said^H559, “Listen^H8085 to the word^H1697 of Yahweh^H3068; thus^H3541 says^H559 Yahweh^H3068, ‘About this time^H6256 tomorrow^H4279 a [fn]seah^H5429 of fine^H5560 flour^H5560 will be sold for a [fn]shekel^H8255, and two [fn]seahs^H5429 of barley^H8184 for a [fn]shekel^H8255, in the gate^H8179 of Samaria^H8111.’”

2Ki 7:2

2Ki 7:2And the royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]of it.”

Lepers Report the Arameans’ Flight

2Ki 7:3

Now there were four^H702 leprous^H6879 men^H376 at the entrance^H6607 of the gate^H8179; and they said^H559 to one^H376 another^H7453, “Why^H4100 do we sit^H3427 here^H6311 until^H5704 we die^H4191?

2Ki 7:4

2Ki 7:4“If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now come, and let us [fn]go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they put us to death, we will die.”

2Ki 7:5

2Ki 7:5So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans. Then they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, but behold, there was no one there.

2Ki 7:6

2Ki 7:6Now the Lord had caused the camp of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great military force, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”

2Ki 7:7

2Ki 7:7Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and forsook their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life.

2Ki 7:8

2Ki 7:8So these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp and entered one tent and ate and drank. Then they carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and they went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also and went and hid them.

2Ki 7:9

Then they said^H559 to one^H376 another^H7453, “We are not doing^H6213 right^H3651. This^H2088 day^H3117 is a day^H3117 of good^H1309 news^H1309, but we are keeping^H2814 silent^H2814; if we wait^H2442 until^H5704 morning^H1242 light^H216, punishment^H5771 will [fn]overtake^H4672 us. So now^H6258, come^H1980, let us go^H935 and tell^H5046 the king’s^H4428 household^H1004.”

2Ki 7:10

2Ki 7:10So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no one there, nor the voice of man, only the horses tied and the donkeys tied, and the tents just as they were.”

2Ki 7:11

2Ki 7:11And the gatekeepers called and told it within the king’s household.

2Ki 7:12

2Ki 7:12Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”

2Ki 7:13

2Ki 7:13And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let some men take five of the remaining horses, which remain [fn]in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who remain in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already come to an end, so let us send and see.”

2Ki 7:14

2Ki 7:14They took therefore two chariots with horses, and the king sent after the camp of the Arameans, saying, “Go and see.”

Plundering the Arameans

2Ki 7:15

2Ki 7:15Then they went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king.

2Ki 7:16

So the people^H5971 went^H3318 out^H3318 and plundered^H962 the camp^H4264 of the Arameans^H758. Then a [fn]seah^H5429 of fine^H5560 flour^H5560 was sold for a shekel^H8255 and two [fn]seahs^H5429 of barley^H8184 for a shekel^H8255, according to the word^H1697 of Yahweh^H3068.

2Ki 7:17

2Ki 7:17Now the king appointed the royal officer on whose hand he leaned [fn]to have charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died just as the man of God had spoken, who spoke when the king came down to him.

2Ki 7:18

2Ki 7:18So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two [fn]seahs of barley for a shekel and a [fn]seah of fine flour for a shekel will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.”

2Ki 7:19

2Ki 7:19And the royal officer had answered the man of God and said, “Now behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [fn]of it.”

2Ki 7:20