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By this time tomorrow you will be able to buy in Samaria ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley for one piece of silver." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_kings/7-1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../vmenus/2_kings/7-1.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="/bmcc/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="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/1.htm">2 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_kings/7.htm">Chapter 7</a> > Verse 1</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><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></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/6-33.htm" title="2 Kings 6:33">◄</a> 2 Kings 7:1 <a href="../2_kings/7-2.htm" title="2 Kings 7:2">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_kings/7.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_kings/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Elisha answered, "Listen to what the LORD says! By this time tomorrow you will be able to buy in Samaria ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley for one piece of silver." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a measure of choice meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_kings/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Elisha answered, "I have a message for you. The LORD promises that tomorrow here in Samaria, you will be able to buy a large sack of flour or two large sacks of barley for almost nothing." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Elisha replied: “Hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the LORD: At this time tomorrow a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the market of Samaria.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.</p><p class="hdg">Elisha said</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/6-33.htm">2 Kings 6:33</a> While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/20-16.htm">2 Kings 20:16</a> And Isaias said to Ezechias: Hear the word of the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/22-19.htm">1 Kings 22:19</a> And he added and said: Hear thou, therefore, the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on the right hand and on the left:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/1-10.htm">Isaiah 1:10</a> Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/37-4.htm">Ezekiel 37:4</a> And he said to me: Prophesy concerning these bones; and say to them: Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.</p><p class="hdg">To-morrow</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-18.htm">2 Kings 7:18,19</a> And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God, which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/8-23.htm">Exodus 8:23</a> And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/9-5.htm">Exodus 9:5,6</a> And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/14-13.htm">Exodus 14:13</a> And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/16-12.htm">Exodus 16:12</a> I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joshua/3-5.htm">Joshua 3:5</a> And Joshua said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/11-9.htm">1 Samuel 11:9</a> And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to the men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you shall have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of Jabes, and they were glad.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/46-5.htm">Psalm 46:5</a> God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.</p><p class="hdg2">2s.</p><p class="hdg2">4d. at the lowest computation: a wide difference between this and the price of the ass's head.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/6-25.htm">2 Kings 6:25</a> And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces of silver.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/6-6.htm">Revelation 6:6</a> And I heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny: and see thou hurt not the wine and the oil.</p><p class="hdg">of barley</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/4-42.htm">2 Kings 4:42</a> And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/6-9.htm">John 6:9</a> There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-18.htm">2 Kings 7:18</a> And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God, which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_kings/7.htm">The Siege Lifted</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.</span><span class="reftext">2</span>Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-16.htm">2 Kings 7:16</a></span><br />And the people going out, pillaged the camp of the Syrians: and a bushel of fine flour was sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, according to the word of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/7-18.htm">2 Kings 7:18</a></span><br />And it came to pass, according to the word of the man of God, which he spoke to the king, when he said: Two bushels of barley shall be for a stater, and a bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this very time tomorrow, in the gate of Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div 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