2 Kings 6:32-7:2

New International Version

³² Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders^(A) were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer^(B) is sending someone to cut off my head?^(C) Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?” ³³ While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him.

The king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait^(D) for the Lord any longer?”

7 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah^[a] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel^[b] and two seahs^[c] of barley for a shekel^(E) at the gate of Samaria.”

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

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