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                                     2Kings


                                    Chapter 6


 24. And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria
     gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

 25. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they
     besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore
     pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's
     dung for five pieces of silver.

 26. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,
     there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

 27. And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I
     help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

 28. And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
     answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may
     eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

 29. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on
     the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she
     hath hid her son.

 30. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the
     woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the
     wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth
     within upon his flesh.

 31. Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of
     Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

 32. But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him;
     and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the
     messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how
     this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head?
     look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him
     fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet
     behind him?

 33. And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger
     came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the
     LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?


                                    Chapter 7


  1. Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith
     the LORD, To morrow 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

 10. 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.

 11. And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's
     house within.

 12. And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants,
     I will now shew 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.

 13. 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 Israelites that are consumed:) and let us
     send and see.

 14. They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent
     after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

 15. 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.

 16. 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.

 17. 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.

 18. 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 to morrow about
     this time in the gate of Samaria:

 19. 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.

 20. And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him
     in the gate, and he died.