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2 King 7
Book of Kings
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord,
Tomorrow 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.
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Host = camp
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2 Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in
Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an
ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of
silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's
dung for five pieces of silver.
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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They = four leprous men
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Twilight = darkness = evening
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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The Lord had made the host of the Syrians to
hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses
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Kings of the Hittites = North of Israel = The
Hittites were divided into several tribes, each
with its king or chief.
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Their empire extended from the Euphrates to Asia
Minor.
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Kings of the Egyptians = South of Israel = The
monuments of this date speak of a large number
of names at this time.
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.
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Mischief = punishment
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They think the famine was over. The
Syrians were gone
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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They didn't take anything with them
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Verse = 6 The Lord had made the host of the
Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise
of horses
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.
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The king thinks they're going to kill them, when
hey came out of the camp to get food
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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That are left = Israelites
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.
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Verse 1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of
the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, Tomorrow 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.
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.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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