RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

gate: and they said one to another, Why do we sit 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 to the
armies of the Arameans: if they save us alive, we shall
live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of
the Arameans: and when they were come to the outskirts
of the camp of Aram, see, there was no man there.
6 For vuvh had made the armies of the Arameans to hear
a noise of mirkavot, and a noise of horses, even the noise
of great armies: and they said one to another, Look, the
melech of Yisrael has hired against us the melechim of
the Hittites, and the melechim of the Mitzrim, to come
upon us.
7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left
their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the
camp as it was, and fled for their chayim.
8 And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the
camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and
carried there silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and
hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and
carried there also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day
is a day of tov tidings, and we hold our silence: if we stay
until the morning light, some mischief will come upon us:
now therefore come, that we may go and tell the melech's
household.
10 So they came and called to the porter of the city: and
they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the
Arameans, and, see, there was no man there, neither voice
of man, but horses tied, and donkeys tied, and the tents as
they were.
11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the
melech's bayit within.
12 And the melech arose in the night, and said to his
avadim, I will now show you what the Arameans have
done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they
have 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.
13 And one of his avadim answered and said, Let some
take, I ask you, five of the horses that remain, which are
left in the city, see, they are as all the multitude of Yisrael
that are left in it: see, I say, they are even as all the
multitude of the Yisraelites that are consumed: and let us
send and see.
14 They took therefore two mirkavah with horses; and the
melech sent them in the direction of the Arameans,
saying, Go and see.
15 And they went after them to the Yarden: and, see, all
the derech was full of garments and vessels, which the
Arameans had cast away in their haste. And the
messengers returned, and told the melech.
16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the
Arameans. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a
shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
according to the word of vuvh.
17 And the melech appointed the officer on whose hand
he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people
trampled him in the gate, and he died, as the man of
Elohim had said, who spoke when the melech came down
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to him.
18 And it came to pass as the man of Elohim had spoken
to the melech, saying, Two measures of barley for a
shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be
tomorrow about this time in the gate of Shomron:
19 And that master answered the man of Elohim, and
said, Now, see, if vuvh should make windows in the
shamayim, should such a thing be? And he said, See, you
shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.
20 And so it came to be for him: for the people trampled
him in the gate, and he died.
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Then spoke Elisha to the woman, whose son he had
restored to chayim, saying, Arise, and go with your
household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for
vuvh has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon
the land for seven years.
2 And the woman arose, and obeyed the saying of the
man of Elohim: and she went with her household, and
sojourned in the land of the Plishtim seven years.
3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the
woman returned out of the land of the Plishtim: and she
went forth to cry to the melech for her bayit and for her
land.
4 And the melech talked with Gechazi the eved of the
man of Elohim, saying, Tell me, I ask you, all the great
things that Elisha has done.
5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the melech how
he had restored a dead body to chayim, that, see, the
woman, whose son he had restored to chayim, cried to the
melech for her bayit and for her land. And Gechazi said,
My master, O melech, this is the woman, and this is her
son, whom Elisha restored to chayim.
6 And when the melech asked the woman, she told him.
So the melech appointed to her a certain officer, saying,
Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field
since the day that she left the land, even until now.
7 And Elisha came to Dameshek; and Ben-Hadad the
melech of Aram was sick; and it was told to him, saying,
The man of Elohim has come here.
8 And the melech said to Haza-El, Take a present in your
hand, and go, meet the man of Elohim, and inquire of
vuvh by him, saying, Shall I be healed from this disease?
9 So Haza-El went to meet him, and took a present with
him, even of every tov thing of Dameshek, forty camels'
loads, and came and stood before him, and said, Your son
Ben-Hadad melech of Aram has sent me to you, saying,
Shall I be healed from this disease?
10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will
certainly be healed: but vuvh has showed me that he shall
surely die.
11 And he stared at him, until he was ashamed: and the
man of Elohim wept.
12 And Haza-El said, Why does my master weep? And he
answered, Because I know the evil that you will do to the
children of Yisrael: their strongholds will you set on fire,
and their young men will you slay with the sword, and
will dash their children, and rip up their women with
child.
13 And Haza-El said, But what, is your eved a dog, that
he should do this great thing to Yisrael? And Elisha
answered, vuvh has showed me that you shall be melech
over Aram.