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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 7 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 2 Kings 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/6.htm" title="2 Kings 6">◄</a> 2 Kings 7 <a href="../2_kings/8.htm" title="2 Kings 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_kings/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the LORD! This is what the LORD says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, “That couldn’t happen even if the LORD opened the windows of heaven!”</p><p class="reg">But Elisha replied, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!”</p><p class="hdg">Outcasts Visit the Enemy Camp</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now there were four men with leprosy<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> to attack us!” they cried to one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. “We went out to the Aramean camp,” they said, “and no one was there! The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.</p><p class="hdg">Israel Plunders the Camp</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his officers, “I know what has happened. The Arameans know we are starving, so they have left their camp and have hidden in the fields. They are expecting us to leave the city, and then they will take us alive and capture the city.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>One of his officers replied, “We had better send out scouts to check into this. Let them take five of the remaining horses. If something happens to them, it will be no worse than if they stay here and die with the rest of us.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So two chariots with horses were prepared, and the king sent scouts to see what had happened to the Aramean army. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They went all the way to the Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. The scouts returned and told the king about it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the people of Samaria rushed out and plundered the Aramean camp. So it was true that six quarts of choice flour were sold that day for one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain were sold for one piece of silver, just as the LORD had promised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The king appointed his officer to control the traffic at the gate, but he was knocked down and trampled to death as the people rushed out.</p><p class="reg">So everything happened exactly as the man of God had predicted when the king came to his house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The man of God had said to the king, “By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost one piece of silver.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The king’s officer had replied, “That couldn’t happen even if the LORD opened the windows of heaven!” And the man of God had said, “You will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate!</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:1a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">1 seah</span><span class="ft"> [7.3 liters] </span><span class="it">of choice flour will cost 1 shekel</span><span class="ft"> [0.4 ounces or 11 grams]; also in 7:16, 18.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">2 seahs</span><span class="ft"> [14.6 liters] </span><span class="it">of barley grain will cost 1 shekel</span><span class="ft"> [0.4 ounces or 11 grams]; also in 7:16, 18.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">with a contagious skin disease.</span><span class="ft"> The Hebrew word used here and throughout this passage can describe various skin diseases.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:6 </span><span class="ft">Possibly </span><span class="it">and the people of Muzur,</span><span class="ft"> a district near Cilicia.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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