1. Elisha said, “Hear the Lord’s word. the Lord says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”
2. Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the Lord made windows in heaven, could this thing be?”He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
3. Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one 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 will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”