² The officer on whose arm the king was leaning^(A) said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(B) of the heavens, could this happen?”

“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat^(C) any of it!”

¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe^(A) into the storehouse,^(B) that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates^(C) of heaven and pour out^(D) so much blessing^(E) that there will not be room enough to store it.^(F)

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,^(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month^(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep^(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens^(D) were opened.

¹⁸ But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning^(A) on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”

¹² So Sarah laughed^(A) to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord^(B) is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

¹³ Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’^{(C) 14} Is anything too hard for the Lord?^(D) I will return to you at the appointed time next year,^(E) and Sarah will have a son.”^(F)

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^{(A) 18} And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(B) if not to those who disobeyed?^{(C) 19} So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(D)

³ What if some were unfaithful?^(A) Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?^(B)