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Arameans Flee; Samaria’s Deliverance

2 Kings 7:3-20

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Chapter 7
3 And four men who were leprous were at the entrance of the gate, and they said, one man to his companion, "Why are we sitting here until we die?" 4 If we say, "We will go to the city," then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we will die. And now, come, and we will fall to the camp of Aram. If they let us live, we will live; and if they put us to death, we will die. 5 And they arose at dusk to come to the camp of Aram, and they came as far as the edge of the camp of Aram, and behold, there was no man there. 6 And the LORD made the camp of Aram hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, a sound of a great army. And they said one man to his brother, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us." 7 So they arose and fled at dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and their donkeys—the camp just as it was—and they fled for their lives. 8 And these lepers came to the edge of the camp, and they came to one tent and they ate and they drank and they carried from there silver and gold and garments and they went and they hid them, and they came to another tent and they carried from there and they went and they hid them. 9 They said, man to his neighbor, "No, this is what we are doing this day. It is a day of good news, and we are keeping silent and waiting until the light of morning, and we will find iniquity. And now, come, let us go and tell the house of the king." 10 They came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, "We came to the camp of Aram, and behold, there is no man there and no sound of man, except the horse tied and the donkey tied. The tents are just as they are." 11 And the gatekeepers called and told the news to the king's house inside. 12 The king got up at night and said to his servants, "Let me tell you what Aram has done to us. They knew that we are hungry, and they went out from the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, 'When they go out from the city, we will seize them alive and go into the city.'" 13 One of his servants answered and said, "Please let them take five of the horses that remain, which remain in it. They are like all the multitude of Israel that remain in it; they are like all the multitude of Israel that are finished. And she will be sent, and let us see." 14 They took two chariot horses, and the king sent them after the camp of Aram, saying, "Go and see." 15 They went after them to the Jordan, and all the way was full of garments and vessels that Aram had thrown away in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king. 16 The people went out and plundered the camp of Aram, and there was a seah of fine flour for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. 17 The king had appointed the third man—who leaned on his hand at the gate—over the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had spoken, who had spoken when the king came down to him. 18 And it was according to the word of the man of God to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley for a shekel and a seah of fine flour for a shekel shall be at this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria." 19 The third one answered the man of God and said, "Look, the LORD is making windows in the heavens—will it be according to this word?" He said, "You yourself will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat from there." 20 And it happened to him just so, and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.