2 Kings 7 NKJV

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Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>: ‘Tomorrow about this time a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>seah of fine flour <i>shall be sold</i> for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, <i>if</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?”</span></p><p><span class="text 2Kgs-7-2">And he said, “In fact, you shall see <i>it</i> with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”</span></p> <h3> The Syrians Flee</span></h3><p><span class="text 2Kgs-7-3"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine <i>is</i> in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one <i>was</i> there. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid <i>them;</i> then they came back and entered another tent, and carried <i>some</i> from there <i>also,</i> and went and hid <i>it.</i></span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day <i>is</i> a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one <i>was</i> there, not a human sound—only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the gatekeepers called out, and they told <i>it</i> to the king’s household inside.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we <i>are</i> hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let several <i>men</i> take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they <i>may either become</i> like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, <i>I say,</i> they <i>may become</i> like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And they went after them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road <i>was</i> full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was <i>sold</i> for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be <i>sold</i> tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then that officer had answered the man of God, and said, “Now look, <i>if</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?”</span></p><p><span class="text 2Kgs-7-19">And he had said, “In fact, you shall see <i>it</i> with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-9709a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Kings 7:1">2 Kings 7:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A third of an ephah, or about 8 gallons</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9717b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Kings 7:9">2 Kings 7:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Calamity</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9720c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 2 Kings 7:12">2 Kings 7:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Hide themselves in ambush</span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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