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1 Then El­isha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To mor­row about this time shall a mea­sure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two mea­sures of bar­ley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned an­swered the man of God, and said, Be­hold, if the LORD would make win­dows in heav­en, might this thing be? And he said, Be­hold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat there­of. 3 And there were four lep­rous men at the en­ter­ing in of the gate: and they said one to an­oth­er, Why sit we here un­til we die? 4 If we say, We will en­ter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die al­so. Now there­fore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syr­i­ans: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. 5 And they rose up in the twi­light, to go unto the camp of the Syr­i­ans: and when they were come to the ut­ter­most part of the camp of Syr­ia, be­hold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syr­i­ans to hear a noise of char­i­ots, and a noise of hors­es, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to an­oth­er, Lo, the king of Is­rael hath hired against us the kings of the Hit­tites, and the kings of the Egyp­tians, to come upon us. 7 Where­fore they arose and fled in the twi­light, and left their tents, and their hors­es, and their ass­es, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 And when these lep­ers came to the ut­ter­most part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and car­ried thence sil­ver, and gold, and rai­ment, and went and hid it; and came again, and en­tered into an­oth­er tent, and car­ried thence also, and went and hid it. 9 Then they said one to an­oth­er, We do not well: this day is a day of good tid­ings, and we hold our peace: if we tar­ry till the morn­ing light, some mis­chief will come upon us: now there­fore come, that we may go and tell the king's house­hold. 10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, say­ing, We came to the camp of the Syr­i­ans, and, be­hold, there was no man there, nei­ther voice of man, but hors­es tied, and ass­es tied, and the tents as they were. 11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house with­in. 12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his ser­vants, I will now shew you what the Syr­i­ans have done to us. They know that we be hun­gry; there­fore are they gone out of the camp to hide them­selves in the field, say­ing, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. 13 And one of his ser­vants an­swered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the hors­es that re­main, which are left in the city, (be­hold, they are as all the mul­ti­tude of Is­rael that are left in it: be­hold, I say, they are even as all the mul­ti­tude of the Is­raelites that are con­sumed: ) and let us send and see. 14 They took there­fore two char­i­ot hors­es; and the king sent af­ter the host of the Syr­i­ans, say­ing, Go and see. 15 And they went af­ter them unto Jor­dan: and, lo, all the way was full of gar­ments and ves­sels, which the Syr­i­ans had cast away in their haste. And the mes­sen­gers re­turned, and told the king. 16 And the peo­ple went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syr­i­ans. So a mea­sure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two mea­sures of bar­ley for a shekel, ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD. 17 And the king ap­point­ed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the peo­ple trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. 18 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: 19 And that lord an­swered the man of God, and said, Now, be­hold, if the LORD 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. 20 And so it fell out unto him: for the peo­ple trode upon him in the gate, and he died.