1. Elisha answered, “Listen to the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow 24 cups of the best flour will sell for half an ounce of silver in the gateway to Samaria. And 48 cups of barley will sell for half an ounce of silver.”
2. The servant on whose arm the king was leaning answered the man of God, “Could this happen even if the Lord poured rain through windows in the sky?”Elisha replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.”
3. Four men with skin diseases were at the entrance of the city gate. One of them asked, “Why are we sitting here waiting to die?
4. If we go into the city, the famine is also there, and we’ll still die. But if we stay here, we’ll die. So let’s go to the Aramean camp. If they give us something to keep us alive, we’ll live. But if they kill us, we’ll die anyway.”
5. So they started out at dusk to go into the Aramean camp. When they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there.
6. (The Lord had made the Aramean army hear what sounded like chariots, horses, and a large army. The Aramean soldiers said to one another, “The king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!”