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II Kings Chapter 7

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Second Kings 7 records Elisha's prophecy that the next day fine flour and barley would sell cheaply in the gate of besieged Samaria, which a skeptical lord scoffs at—only to see it but not eat of it. That night four leprous men at the gate decide to surrender to the Syrian camp rather than starve, and find it deserted because the Lord had made the Syrians hear the sound of a great army and flee, abandoning everything. The people plunder the camp, fulfilling Elisha's word, and the skeptical lord is trampled to death in the gate exactly as the man of God had said.

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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.
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II Kings 6:33II Kings 20:16I Kings 22:19Isaiah 1:10Ezekiel 37:4II Kings 7:18II Kings 7:19Exodus 8:23Exodus 9:5Exodus 9:6Exodus 14:13Exodus 16:12

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II Kings 7:18II Kings 7:16Exodus 30:13Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9I Kings 4:22

(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.
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II Kings 5:18Genesis 18:12Genesis 18:13Genesis 18:14Numbers 11:21Numbers 11:22Numbers 11:23Psalms 78:19Psalms 78:20Psalms 78:21Psalms 78:41Genesis 7:11

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I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Ezekiel 41:16

(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?
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II Kings 5:1II Kings 8:4Leviticus 13:46Numbers 5:2Numbers 5:3Numbers 5:4Numbers 12:14II Kings 7:4Jeremiah 8:14Jeremiah 27:13

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II Kings 7:4Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 48:16Ezekiel 48:32Ezekiel 48:33

(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.
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Jeremiah 14:18I Chronicles 12:19Jeremiah 37:13Jeremiah 37:14Esther 4:16Jeremiah 8:14Jonah 3:9Luke 15:17Luke 15:18Luke 15:19II Samuel 14:14Hebrews 9:27

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Romans 14:8II Chronicles 25:4Ezekiel 6:12Genesis 47:19Jeremiah 11:22Ezekiel 3:18

(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.
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I Samuel 30:17Ezekiel 12:6Ezekiel 12:7Ezekiel 12:12Leviticus 27:8Leviticus 27:26Deuteronomy 28:7Deuteronomy 32:25Deuteronomy 32:30

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Exodus 33:7Revelation 8:12Ruth 3:13I Kings 6:24II Kings 7:8Mark 13:27

(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.
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II Kings 3:22II Kings 3:23II Kings 3:24II Kings 3:25II Kings 3:26II Kings 3:27II Kings 19:7II Samuel 5:24Job 15:21Psalms 14:5Jeremiah 20:3Jeremiah 20:4

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Ezekiel 1:24Ezra 3:13Ezekiel 3:13Isaiah 13:4Nahum 3:2Joel 2:5

(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.
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Job 18:11Psalms 48:4Psalms 48:5Psalms 48:6Psalms 68:12Proverbs 21:1Proverbs 28:1Jeremiah 48:8Jeremiah 48:9Psalms 20:7Psalms 20:8Psalms 33:17

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II Kings 7:10Genesis 14:10I Samuel 31:7II Samuel 10:14I Kings 20:30II Kings 9:27

(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.
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II Kings 5:24Joshua 7:21Jeremiah 41:8Matthew 13:44Matthew 25:18

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Genesis 31:33Joshua 7:22Amos 9:3Joshua 7:21Numbers 19:14Esther 2:6

(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.
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II Kings 7:3Haggai 1:4Haggai 1:5II Kings 7:6Isaiah 41:27Isaiah 52:7Nahum 1:15Luke 2:10Philippians 2:4II Kings 5:26II Kings 5:27Numbers 32:23

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Isaiah 30:26Ruth 3:13II Kings 4:26II Samuel 18:20Esther 8:8Ephesians 4:11

(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.
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II Kings 7:11II Samuel 18:26Psalms 127:1Mark 13:34Mark 13:35II Kings 7:6II Kings 7:7

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II Kings 7:7Exodus 33:7II Kings 7:5

(11) And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
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Esther 8:8Esther 3:3Esther 3:12

(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.
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Exodus 14:20Genesis 19:35Deuteronomy 23:10II Kings 19:35Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25

(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.
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II Kings 5:13II Kings 7:4II Kings 6:33Jeremiah 14:18Lamentations 4:9

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Matthew 14:19Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Judges 7:12Psalms 42:4Ecclesiastes 5:3

(14) They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
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II Kings 7:6Zechariah 6:2Zechariah 6:3II Samuel 10:18I Chronicles 19:16I Chronicles 19:18

(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.
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Esther 1:7Isaiah 22:24Job 2:4Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 10:3Isaiah 31:7Ezekiel 18:31Matthew 16:26Matthew 24:16Matthew 24:17Matthew 24:18Philippians 3:7

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Joshua 4:18II Samuel 19:15Luke 4:1Joshua 4:7

(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.
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I Samuel 17:53II Chronicles 14:12II Chronicles 14:13II Chronicles 14:14II Chronicles 14:15II Chronicles 20:25Job 27:16Job 27:17Psalms 68:12Isaiah 33:1Isaiah 33:4Isaiah 33:23

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II Kings 7:1II Kings 7:18Exodus 30:13I Kings 4:22Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19

(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.
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II Kings 9:33Judges 20:43Isaiah 25:10Micah 7:10Hebrews 10:29

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Ezekiel 40:6Ezekiel 40:27

(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:
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II Kings 7:1II Kings 7:2II Kings 6:32Genesis 18:14

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II Kings 7:1II Kings 7:16Exodus 30:13Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9I Kings 4:22

(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.
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Ezekiel 41:16

(20) And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
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Numbers 20:12II Chronicles 20:20Job 20:23Isaiah 7:9Jeremiah 17:5Jeremiah 17:6Hebrews 3:18Hebrews 3:19

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9II Samuel 2:23II Kings 7:17Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2

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