2 Kings 7:1-3

Contemporary English Version

7 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.”

² The chief officer there with the king replied, “I don't believe it! Even if the Lord sent a rainstorm, it couldn't produce that much grain by tomorrow.”

“You will see it happen, but you won't eat any of the food,” Elisha warned him.

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³ About the same time, four men with leprosy^[a] were just outside the gate of Samaria. They said to each other, “Why should we sit here, waiting to die?