RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

a time to receive silver, and to receive garments, and
oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men
avadim, and female avadim?
27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you,
and to your zera le-olam-va-ed. And he went out from his
presence a leper as white as snow.
And the sons of the neviim said to Elisha, See now, the
place where we dwell with you is too small for us.
2 Let us go, we ask you, to the Yarden, and take there
every man a beam, and let us make us a place there,
where we may dwell. And he answered, Go!
3 And one said, Be content, I ask you, and go with your
avadim. And he answered, I will go.
4 So he went with them. And when they came to the
Yarden, they cut down wood.
5 But as one was cutting a beam, the axe head fell into the
mayim: and he cried, and said, Oy vey! Master! For it
was borrowed.
6 And the man of Elohim said, Where did it fall? And he
showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast
it in there; and the iron did swim.
7 Therefore said he, Pick it up. And he put out his hand,
and took it.
8 Then the melech of Aram warred against Yisrael, and
took counsel with his avadim, saying, In such and such a
place shall be my camp.
9 And the man of Elohim sent to the melech of Yisrael,
saying, Beware that you pass not at this place; for there
the Arameans have come down.
10 And the melech of Yisrael sent to the place where the
man of Elohim told him and warned him of, and saved
himself there, more than once, or twice.
11 Therefore the lev of the melech of Aram was very
troubled for this thing; and he called his avadim, and said
to them, Will you not show me which of us is a traitor for
the melech of Yisrael?
12 And one of his avadim said, None, my master, O
melech: but Elisha, the navi that is in Yisrael, tells the
melech of Yisrael the words that you speak in your
bedroom.
13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send
and get him. And it was told him, saying, See, he is in
Dothan.
14 Therefore, he sent there horses, and mirkavot, and
great armies: and they came by night, and surrounded the
city.
15 And when the eved of the man of Elohim had risen
early, and gone forth, see, armies surrounded the city both
with horses and mirkavot. And his eved said to him, Oy
vey! My master! What shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for those that are with us
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17 And Elisha made tefillah, and said, vuvh; I ask open
his eyes, that he may see. And vuvh opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, see, the mountain was
full of horses and mirkavot of fire all around Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha made
tefillah to vuvh, and said, Destroy this people, I ask you,
with blindness. And he destroyed them with blindness
according to the word of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, This is not the derech, neither
is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man
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whom you seek. But he led them to Shomron.
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into
Shomron, that Elisha said, vuvh, open the eyes of these
men, that they may see. And vuvh opened their eyes, and
they saw; and, see, they were in the midst of Shomron.
21 And the melech of Yisrael said to Elisha, when he saw
them, My abba, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?
22 And he answered, You shall not kill them: would you
kill those whom you have taken captive with your sword
and with your bow? Set lechem and mayim before them,
that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when
they ate and drank, he sent them away, and they went to
their master. So the bands of Aramean raiders came no
more into the land of Yisrael.
24 And it came to pass after this, that Ben-Hadad melech
of Aram gathered all his armies, and went up, and
besieged Shomron.
25 And there was a great famine in Shomron: and, see,
they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty
pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a pint of dove's
dropping for five pieces of silver.
26 And as the melech of Yisrael was passing by upon the
wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my
master, O melech.
27 And he said, If vuvh does not help you, how shall I
help you? From the threshing floor, or from the
winepress?
28 And the melech said to her, What bothers you? And
she answered, This woman said to me, Give me your son,
that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son
tomorrow.
29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her
on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and
she has hidden her son.
30 And it came to pass, when the melech heard the words
of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and he passed by
upon the wall, and the people looked, and, see, he had
sackcloth on his body underneath.
31 Then he said, Elohim do so and more also to me, if the
head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this
day.
32 But Elisha sat in his bayit, and the zechanim sat with
him; and the melech sent a man ahead of him: but before
the messenger came to him, he said to the zechanim, See
how this son of a murderer has been sent to take away my
head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door,
and hold him back at the door: is not the sound of his
master's feet behind him?
33 And while he yet talked with them, see, the messenger
came down to him: and he said, See, this evil is from
vuvh; why should I wait for vuvh any longer?
7 Then Elisha said, Hear the word of vuvh; This says
vuvh, 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 Shomron.
2 Then a master on whose hand the melech leaned
answered the man of Elohim, and said, See, if vuvh would
make windows in the shamayim, would this thing be?
And he said, See, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall
not eat of it.
3 And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the
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