6And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us.H1121H5030H559H6440H477H4725H3427H6862 2"Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell." So he answered, "Go."H3212H3383H3947H376H259H6982H6213H4725H3427H559H3212 3Then one said, "Please consent to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."H259H559H2974H3212H5650H559H3212 4So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.H3212H935H3383H1504H6086 5But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, "Alas, master! For it was borrowed."H259H5307H6982H1270H5307H4325H6817H559H162H113H7592 6So the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float.H376H430H559H575H5307H7200H4725H7094H6086H7993H1270H6687 7Therefore he said, "Pick it up for yourself." So he reached out his hand and took it.H559H7311H7971H3027H3947 8Now the king of Syria was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place."H4428H758H3898H3478H3289H5650H559H6423H492H4725H8466 9And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there."H376H430H7971H4428H3478H559H8104H5674H2088H4725H758H5185 10Then the king of Israel sent someone to the place of which the man of God had told him. Thus he warned him, and he was watchful there, not just once or twice.H4428H3478H7971H4725H376H430H559H2094H8104H259H8147 11Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"H3820H4428H758H5590H1697H7121H5650H559H5046H4428H3478 12And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."H259H5650H559H113H4428H477H5030H3478H5046H4428H3478H1697H1696H2315H4904 13So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." And it was told him, saying, "Surely he is in Dothan."H559H3212H7200H351H7971H3947H5046H559H1886 14Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.H7971H5483H7393H3515H2428H935H3915H5362H5892H5362 15And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"H8334H376H430H6965H7925H3318H2428H5437H5892H5483H7393H5288H559H162H113H6213 16So he answered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."H559H3372H7227 17And Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see." Then 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.H477H6419H559H3068H6491H5869H7200H3068H6491H5869H5288H7200H2022H4390H5483H7393H784H5439H477 18So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray, with blindness." And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.H3381H477H6419H3068H559H5221H1471H5575H5221H5575H1697H477 19Now Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, nor is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." But he led them to Samaria.H477H559H1870H2090H5892H3212H310H3212H376H1245H3212H8111 20So it was, when they had come to Samaria, that Elisha said, "LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and there they were, inside Samaria!H935H8111H477H559H3068H6491H5869H7200H3068H6491H5869H7200H8432H8111 21Now when the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?"H4428H3478H559H477H7200H1H5221H5221 22But he answered, "You shall not kill them. Would you kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword and your bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."H559H5221H5221H7617H2719H7198H7760H3899H4325H6440H398H8354H3212H113 23Then he prepared a great feast for them; and after they ate and drank, he sent them away and they went to their master. So the bands of Syrian raiders came no more into the land of Israel.H3739H1419H3740H398H8354H7971H3212H113H1416H758H935H3254H776H3478 24And it happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.H310H1130H4428H758H6908H4264H5927H6696H8111 25And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.H1419H7458H8111H6696H2543H7218H8084H3701H7255H6894H1686H3123H2755H2568H3701 26Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"H4428H3478H5674H2346H6817H802H559H3467H113H4428 27And he said, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?"H559H3068H3467H370H3467H1637H3342 28Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'H4428H559H559H802H559H5414H1121H398H3117H398H1121H4279 29"So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."H1310H1121H398H559H312H3117H5414H1121H398H2244H1121 30Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath he had sackcloth on his body.H4428H8085H1697H802H7167H899H5674H2346H5971H7200H8242H1004H1320 31Then he said, "God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today."H559H430H6213H3254H7218H477H1121H8202H5975H3117 32But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"H477H3427H1004H2205H3427H7971H376H6440H4397H935H559H2205H7200H1121H7523H7971H5493H7218H7200H4397H935H5462H1817H3905H1817H6963H113H7272H310 33And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then the king said, "Surely this calamity is from the LORD; why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"H1696H4397H3381H559H7451H3068H3176H3068
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