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2 Kings 7:1 301 2 Kings 8:4
7 we are affamished, therefore they are gone out

1 Then Elisha saide, Heare ye the worde of the of the campe to hide them selues in the fielde,
Lord: thus saith the Lord, To morowe this time a saying, When they come out of the citie, we shall
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measure of fine floure shalbe solde for a shekel, catch them aliue, and get into the citie. And
and two measures of barley for a shekel in the one of his seruants answered, and said, Let me
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gate of Samaria. Then a prince, on whose hande take now fiue of the horses that remaine, and are
the King leaned, answered the man of God, and left in the citie, (behold, they are euen as all the
saide, Though the Lord would make windowes multitude of Israel that are left therein: beholde,
I say, they are as the multitude of the Israelites
in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? that are consumed) and we wil send to see. 14 So
And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine they tooke two charets of horses, and the King
eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof. 3 Nowe sent after the hoste of the Aramites, saying, Goe
there were foure leprous men at the entring in and see. 15 And they went after them vnto Iorden,
of the gate: and they saide one to an other, Why and loe, all the way was full of clothes and vessels
sitte we here vntill we die? 4 If we say, We will which the Aramites had cast from them in their
enter into the citie, the famine is in the citie, hast: and the messengers returned, and told ye
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dye also. Nowe therefore come, and let vs fall King. Then the people went out and spoyled
into the campe of the Aramites: if they saue our the campe of the Aramites: so a measure of
liues, we shall liue: and if they kill vs, we are but fine floure was at a shekel, and two measures
dead. 5 So they rose vp in the twilight, to goe of barley at a shekel according to the word of
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to the campe of the Aramites: and when they the Lord. And the King gaue the prince (on
were come to the vtmost part of the campe of whose hande he leaned) the charge of the gate,
the Aramites, loe, there was no man there. For and the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he
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the Lord had caused the campe of the Aramites dyed, as the man of God had saide, which spake
to heare a noyse of charets and a noise of horses, it, when the King came downe to him. 18 And
and a noise of a great armie, so that they sayde it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken
one to another, Beholde, the King of Israel hath to the King, saying, Two measures of barley at a
hired against vs the Kings of the Hittites, and shekel, and a measure of fine floure shall be at
the Kings of the Egyptians to come vpon vs. a shekel, to morowe about this time in the gate
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7 Wherefore they arose, and fled in the twilight, of Samaria. But the prince had answered the
and left their tentes and their horses, and their man of God, and saide, Though the Lord would
asses, euen the campe as it was, and fledde for make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so
their liues. And when these lepers came to the to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it
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vtmost part of the campe, they entred into one with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.
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tent, and did eate and drinke, and caryed thence And so it came vnto him: for the people trode
siluer and golde, and raiment, and went and hid vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
it: after they returned, and entred into another
tent, and caryed thence also, and went and hid 8
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it. Then saide one to another, We doe not well: 1 Then spake Elisha vnto the woman, whose
this day is a day of good tidings, and we holde our sonne he had restored to life, saying, Vp, and
peace. if we tary till day light, some mischiefe goe, thou, and thine house, and soiourne where
will come vpon vs. Nowe therefore, come, let thou canst soiourne: for the Lord hath called
vs goe, and tell the Kings housholde. 10 So they for a famine, and it commeth also vpon the land
came, and called vnto the porters of the citie, seuen yeeres. 2 And the woman arose, and did
and tolde them, saying, We came to the campe after the saying of the man of God, and went
of the Aramites, and loe, there was no man there, both shee and her housholde and soiourned in
neither voyce of man, but horses tyed and asses the lande of the Philistims seuen yeeres. 3 And
tyed: and the tents are as they were. 11 And the at the seuen yeeres ende, the woman returned
porters cryed and declared to the Kings house out of the lande of the Philistims, and went out to
within. 12 Then the King arose in the night, and call vpon the King for her house and for her land.
saide vnto his seruants, I wil shew you now, what 4 And the King talked with Gehazi the seruant of
the Aramites haue done vnto vs. They know that the man of God, saying, Tell mee, I pray thee, all