2 Kings 6:24-8:15
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Afterward y Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.
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And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
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Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
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And he said, "If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
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And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
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z So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son."
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When the king heard the words of the woman, a he tore his clothes - now he was passing by on the wall - and the people looked, and behold, a he had sackcloth beneath on his body -
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and he said, b "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."
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Elisha was sitting in his house, c and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this d murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
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And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the Lord! e Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?"
2 Kings 7
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But Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, f Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria."
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Then g the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, h "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
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Now there were four men who were lepers i at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die?
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If we say, 'Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die."
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So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.
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For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians j hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us k the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us."
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l So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
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And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.
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Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king's household."
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So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were."
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Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household.
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And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, 'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"
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And one of his servants said, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see."
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So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."
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So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.
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Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, m according to the word of the Lord.
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Now the king had appointed n the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said o when the king came down to him.
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For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,"
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n the captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, p "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."
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And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.
2 Kings 8
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Now Elisha had said to the woman q whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord r has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for s seven years."
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So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
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And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
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Now the king was talking with t Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done."
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And while he was telling the king how q Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life."
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And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now."
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Now Elisha came to u Damascus. v Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, "The man of God has come here,"
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the king said to w Hazael, x "Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, y and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?'"
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So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, z "Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?'"
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And Elisha said to him, a "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but the Lord has shown me that b he shall certainly die."
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And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, c until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept.
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And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know d the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword e and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women."
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And Hazael said, "What is your servant, f who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, g "The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria."
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Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me h that you would certainly recover."
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But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
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1 Kings 20:1
Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it.
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Leviticus 26:29
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:53
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
Deuteronomy 28:57
Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
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1 Kings 21:27
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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1 Kings 21:27
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.
Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
Ezekiel 14:1
Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
Ezekiel 20:1
In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
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1 Kings 18:4
And when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 21:13
And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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Job 2:9
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
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2 Kings 7:18
For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.
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2 Kings 7:17
Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.
2 Kings 7:19
The captain had answered the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
2 Kings 5:18
In this matter may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.
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Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
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Leviticus 13:46
He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.
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2 Kings 6:17
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see." So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Samuel 5:24
And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.
Job 15:21
Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
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1 Kings 10:29
A chariot could be imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver and a horse for 150, and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
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Psalms 48:4 - 6
For behold, the kings assembled; they came on together.
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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2 Kings 7:1
But Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord : thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.
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2 Kings 7:2
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
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2 Kings 6:32
Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
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2 Kings 7:17
Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.
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2 Kings 7:2
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.
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2 Kings 4:35
Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
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Psalms 105:16
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
Haggai 1:11
And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.
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Genesis 41:27
The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.
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2 Kings 4:12
And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.
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2 Kings 8:1
Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.
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1 Kings 11:24
And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.
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2 Kings 6:24
Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.
1 Kings 20:1
Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it.
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1 Kings 19:15
And the Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kings 19:17
And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.
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1 Samuel 9:7
Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
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2 Kings 1:2
Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.
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2 Kings 5:13
But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?
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2 Kings 8:14
Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover.
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2 Kings 8:15
But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.
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2 Kings 2:17
But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, "Send." They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him.
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2 Kings 10:32
In those days the Lord began to cut off parts o...
2 Kings 12:17
At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and f...
2 Kings 13:3
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against I...
2 Kings 13:7
For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of m...
2 Kings 13:22
Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all t...
Amos 1:3 - 4
Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
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Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Nahum 3:10
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Psalms 137:9
Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
Hosea 10:14
Therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
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1 Samuel 17:43
And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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1 Kings 19:15
And the Lord said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
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2 Kings 8:10
And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die.
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