The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Kings 7:3 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Now there were four men with leprosy[/FONT][FONT=&quot] at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:4 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”[/FONT]

 

[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 7:5 ESV] 5 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.[/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 7:6 (ESV)

For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians 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 the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Kings 7:7
New International Version (NIV)

So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 7:8 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The men who had leprosy[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] reached the edge of the camp, entered one of the tents and ate and drank. Then they took silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also.[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:9 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Then they said to each other, “What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:10 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, “We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a sound of anyone—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were.”[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 7:11 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 7:12): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]12 Then the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 7:13): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]13 One of his servants said, “Please, let some men take five of the horses which remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel who have already perished, so let us send and see.”


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[HisUnfailingLove]

2 Kings 7:14 New King James Version (NKJV)

“Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.”

 

[HisUnfailingLove]

2 Kings 7:15 New King James Version (NKJV)

“And they went after them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:16 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was [/FONT]sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:17 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 7:18 (KJV)
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:19 (KJV)


[FONT=&quot]And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 7:20 (KJV)

And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 8:1 (KJV)


[FONT=&quot]Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.[/FONT]

 

[HisUnfailingLove]

2 Kings 8:2 (NIV)

"The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years."