19. Then Elisha said to them: “This is the wrong road, and this is the wrong city. Follow me! I will take you to the man you want.” And he led them to Samaria.
20. When they entered Samaria, Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open their eyes that they may see.” The Lord opened their eyes, and they saw that they were inside Samaria.
21. When the king of Israel saw them, he asked, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?”
22. Elisha replied, “You must not kill them. Do you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword or bow? Serve them a meal. Let them eat and drink, and then go back to their master.”
23. The king spread a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went back to their master. No more Aramean raiders came into the land of Israel.
24. After this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, mustered his whole army and laid siege to Samaria.
25. Because of the siege the famine in Samaria was so severe that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a fourth of a kab of “dove droppings” for five pieces of silver.
26. One day, as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Save us, my lord king!”