2nd Kings Chapter 6 World English Bible

2nd Kings 6:1

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place where we dwell before you is too strait for us.

2nd Kings 6:2

Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.

2nd Kings 6:3

One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.

2nd Kings 6:4

So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

2nd Kings 6:5

But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.

2nd Kings 6:6

The man of God said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.

2nd Kings 6:7

He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.

2nd Kings 6:8

Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

2nd Kings 6:9

The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you not pass such a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.

2nd Kings 6:10

The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

2nd Kings 6:11

The heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said to them, Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?

2nd Kings 6:12

One of his servants said, No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.

2nd Kings 6:13

He said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him. It was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

2nd Kings 6:14

Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and surrounded the city.

2nd Kings 6:15

When the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. His servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

2nd Kings 6:16

He answered, Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

2nd Kings 6:17

Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh 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.

2nd Kings 6:18

When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

2nd Kings 6:19

Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. He led them to Samaria.

2nd Kings 6:20

It happened, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

2nd Kings 6:21

The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I strike them? shall I strike them?

2nd Kings 6:22

He answered, You shall not strike them: would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

2nd Kings 6:23

He prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

2nd Kings 6:24

It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

2nd Kings 6:25

There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.

2nd Kings 6:26

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

2nd Kings 6:27

He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?

2nd Kings 6:28

The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

2nd Kings 6:29

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; and she has hid her son.

2nd Kings 6:30

It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.

2nd Kings 6:31

Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

2nd Kings 6:32

But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?

2nd Kings 6:33

While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?