¹⁸ So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, ^(A)“Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be sold tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria.”

The Syrians Flee

7 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: ^(A)‘Tomorrow about this time a ^[a]seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ”

^2 (B)So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, ^(C)if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?”

And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”

³² But Elisha was sitting in his house, and ^(A)the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, ^(B)“Do you see how this son of ^(C)a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

^14 (A)Is anything too hard for the Lord? ^(B)At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”