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Elisha said, “Hear the Lord’s word! This is what the Lord says: At this time tomorrow a seah[a] of wheat flour will sell for a shekel at Samaria’s gate, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.”

Then the officer, the one the king leaned on for support, spoke to the man of God: “Come on! Even if the Lord should make windows in the sky, how could that happen?”

Elisha said, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat from it.”

The siege is broken

Now there were four men with skin disease[b] at the entrance to the city. They said to each other, “What are we doing sitting here until we die?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 7:1 One seah is approximately seven and a half quarts.
  2. 2 Kings 7:3 Traditionally leprosy, a term used for several different skin diseases

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