The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 6:16 (ESV)

[FONT=&quot]He said, “Do not be afraid, [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 6:17 (ESV)

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 round Elisha.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 6:18 (NIV)
As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, "Strike this army with blindness." So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 6:19 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 6:20 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]After they entered the city, Elisha said, “[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot], open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 6:21): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]21 Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”


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[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 6:22): ... New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]22 He answered, “You shall not kill them. Would you kill those you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 6:23 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory.[/FONT]

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 6:24): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][h=3]The Siege of Samaria—Cannibalism[/h]24 Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 6:25): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 6:26 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”[/FONT]

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 6:27 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 6:28 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’[/FONT]

 

[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 6:29 ESV] 29 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."

*gasp* O.O
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[Deade]

2 Kings 6:30 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] on his body.[/FONT]

 

[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 6:31 ESV] 31 and he said, "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."[/FONT]

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 6:32 (ESV)

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?”

 

[LOLOKGal]

[FONT=comic\ sans\ ms][2Ki 6:33 ESV] 33 And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"[/FONT]

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 7:1 (NIV)
Elisha replied, "Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 7:2 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”[/FONT]