geneva - 2Kings:6-7

geneva@2Kings:6:1 @ And the children of the Prophets saide vnto Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the place where we dwell with thee, is too litle for vs.

geneva@2Kings:6:2 @ Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a (note:)Or a piece of wood fit to build with.(:note) beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

geneva@2Kings:6:3 @ And one said, Vouchsafe, I pray thee, to go with thy seruants, and he answered, I will goe.

geneva@2Kings:6:4 @ So he went with them, & when they came to Iorden, they cut downe wood.

geneva@2Kings:6:5 @ And as one was felling of a tree, the yron fell into the water: then he cryed, and said, Alas master, it was but borowed.

geneva@2Kings:6:6 @ And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron did (note:)God wrought this miraculously to confirm the authority of Elisha, to whom he had given such abundance of his Spirit.(:note) swim.

geneva@2Kings:6:7 @ Then he saide, Take it vp to thee; he stretched out his hand, and tooke it.

geneva@2Kings:6:8 @ Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In (note:)Meaning, that he would lie in ambush and take the Israelites unawares.(:note) such and such a place [shall be] my camp.

geneva@2Kings:6:9 @ Therefore the man of God sent vnto the King of Israel, saying, Beware thou goe not ouer to such a place: for there the Aramites are come downe.

geneva@2Kings:6:10 @ And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and (note:)The wicked conspire nothing so craftily, but God can reveal it to his servants, and cause their counsel to be disclosed.(:note) saved himself there, not once nor twice.

geneva@2Kings:6:11 @ And the heart of the King of Aram was troubled for this thing: therefore he called his seruants and saide vnto them, Will ye not shewe me, which of vs bewrayeth our counsel to the king of Israel?

geneva@2Kings:6:12 @ And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy (note:)There is nothing so secret that you can go about, but he knows it, and reveals it to his king.(:note) bedchamber.

geneva@2Kings:6:13 @ And he said, Goe, and espie where he is, that I may sende and fetch him; one tolde him, saying, Beholde, he is in Dothan.

geneva@2Kings:6:14 @ Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a (note:)Though it was nothing in man's judgment to have taken Elisha, yet the wicked doubt, and think they are never able to prepare enough power, though it be but against one or a few.(:note) great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

geneva@2Kings:6:15 @ And when the seruant of the man of God arose earely to goe out, beholde, an hoste compassed the citie with horses and charets. Then his seruant sayde vnto him, Alas master, howe shall we doe?

geneva@2Kings:6:16 @ And he answered, (note:)For he was assured of God's help, and that millions of angels camped about the godly to deliver them.(:note) Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are] more than they that [be] with them.

geneva@2Kings:6:17 @ And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, (note:)That he may behold how you have prepared an army to rescue us.(:note) that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

geneva@2Kings:6:18 @ And when (note:)Meaning the Syrians his enemies, who came down thinking themselves sure of him.(:note) they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

geneva@2Kings:6:19 @ And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led (note:)Thus he did being led by the Spirit of God, and not because he sought his own revenge, but only to set forth the glory of God.(:note) them to Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:6:20 @ And when they were come to Samaria, Elisha saide, Lorde, open their eyes that they may see; the Lorde opened their eyes, and they saw, & beholde, they were in the mids of Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:6:21 @ And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, (note:)The wicked use reverent and grave words toward the servants of God, when they think to have any blessing from them, though in their heart they cannot abide them.(:note) My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?

geneva@2Kings:6:22 @ And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: doest thou not smite them that thou hast taken with thy sworde, and with thy bowe? but set bread and water before them, that they may eate and drinke and goe to their master.

geneva@2Kings:6:23 @ And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no (note:)For this gentle intreaty and the miracle wrought by the prophet, did more for peace than if they had been overcome in battle for they did not return at that time to fight against Israel, or in that king's days.(:note) more into the land of Israel.

geneva@2Kings:6:24 @ But afterward Ben-hadad King of Aram gathered all his hoste, and went vp, and besieged Samaria.

geneva@2Kings: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 (note:)The Hebrews write, that they burned it in the seige for lack of wood.(:note) dung for five [pieces] of silver.

geneva@2Kings:6:26 @ And as the King of Israel was going vpon the wall, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying, Helpe, my lord, O King.

geneva@2Kings:6:27 @ And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the (note:)Meaning, any kind of food as corn and wine.(:note) barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

geneva@2Kings:6:28 @ Also the King said vnto her, What ayleth thee? And she answered, This woman sayde vnto me, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate my sonne to morowe,

geneva@2Kings:6:29 @ So we sod my sonne, and did eate him: & I saide to her the day after, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him, but she hath hid her sonne.

geneva@2Kings:6:30 @ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within (note:)Thus hypocrites when they feel God's judgments think to please him with outward ceremonies whom in prosperity they will not know.(:note) upon his flesh.

geneva@2Kings:6:31 @ And he saide, God doe so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the sonne of Shaphat shall stande on him this day.

geneva@2Kings:6:32 @ But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a (note:)Meaning, Jehoram Ahab's son, who killed the prophets and caused Naboth to be stoned.(:note) murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

geneva@2Kings:6:33 @ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what (note:)So the wicked fall into a rage and desperation, if they do not find a quick remedy for their afflictions.(:note) should I wait for the LORD any longer?

geneva@2Kings:7:1 @ Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, (note:)The godly are always assured of God's help in their necessity, but the times and hours are only revealed by God's Spirit.(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:7:2 @ Then a lord on whose hand the king (note:)To whom the king gave the charge and oversight of things as in (2Ki_7:17).(:note) leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make He mocked at the prophets words saying, that if God rained down corn from heaven, yet this could not come to pass. windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not Your infidelity will be punished in this when you see this miracle, and yet not partake of it. eat thereof.

geneva@2Kings:7:3 @ And there were four leprous men at the (note:)For it was commanded in the law that they should dwell apart, and not among their brethren, (Lev_13:46).(:note) entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

geneva@2Kings:7:4 @ If we say, We will enter into the citie, the famine is in the citie, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, we dye also. Nowe therefore come, and let vs fall into the campe of the Aramites: if they saue our liues, we shall liue: and if they kill vs, we are but dead.

geneva@2Kings:7:5 @ So they rose vp in the twilight, to goe to the campe of the Aramites: and when they were come to the vtmost part of the campe of the Aramites, loe, there was no man there.

geneva@2Kings:7:6 @ For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a (note:)Thus God needs no great preparation to destroy the wicked. Though they are many he can scatter them with a small noise, or shaking of a leaf.(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:7:7 @ 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 (note:)The wicked need no greater enemy than their own conscience to pursue them.(:note) fled for their life.

geneva@2Kings:7:8 @ And when these lepers came to the vtmost part of the campe, they entred into one tent, and did eate and drinke, and caryed thence siluer and golde, and raiment, and went and hid it: after they returned, and entred into another tent, and caryed thence also, and went and hid it.

geneva@2Kings:7:9 @ Then saide one to another, We doe not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we holde our peace. If we tary till day light, some mischiefe will come vpon vs. Nowe therefore, come, let vs goe, and tell the Kings housholde.

geneva@2Kings:7:10 @ So they came, and called vnto the porters of the citie, and tolde them, saying, We came to the campe of the Aramites, and loe, there was no man there, neither voyce of man, but horses tyed and asses tyed: and the tents are as they were.

geneva@2Kings:7:11 @ And the porters cryed and declared to the Kings house within.

geneva@2Kings:7:12 @ And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, (note:)He mistrusted the prophets words, and therefore could believe nothing, as they who are more prudent than godly always cast more doubt than is needed.(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:7:13 @ 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 (note:)There are no more left, but they, or the rest are consumed by the famine, as the rest of the people.(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:7:14 @ So they tooke two charets of horses, and the King sent after the hoste of the Aramites, saying, Goe and see.

geneva@2Kings:7:15 @ And they went after them vnto Iorden, and loe, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Aramites had cast from them in their hast: & the messengers returned, and told ye King.

geneva@2Kings: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, (note:)Which he spoke by the mouth of Elisha, (2Ki_7:1).(:note) according to the word of the LORD.

geneva@2Kings:7:17 @ And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people (note:)As the people pressed out of the gate to run to the Syrian's tents, where they had heard meat and great spoil was left.(:note) 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.

geneva@2Kings:7:18 @ And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the King, saying, Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine floure shall be at a shekel, to morowe about this time in the gate of Samaria.

geneva@2Kings:7:19 @ But the prince had answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.

geneva@2Kings:7:20 @ And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.

geneva@2Kings:8:1 @ Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou (note:)Where you can find a convenient place to dwell, where there is plenty.(:note) canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.