2 Kings 7:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ It so happened that the king of Israel had put the city gate under the command of the officer who was his personal attendant. The officer was trampled to death there by the people and died, as Elisha had predicted when the king went to see him. ¹⁸ Elisha had told the king that by that time the following day ten pounds of the best wheat or twenty pounds of barley would be sold in Samaria for one piece of silver, ¹⁹ to which the officer had answered, “That can't happen—not even if the Lord himself were to send grain^[a] at once!” And Elisha had replied, “You will see it happen, but you won't get to eat any of the food.”