12:006:033 And while he yet talked with them, behold,
the messenger came
down
unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of
the lord;
what
should I wait for the lord any longer?
12:007:001 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the
lord; Thus saith the
lord,
To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour
be
sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a
shekel,
in
the gate of Samaria.
12:007:002 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned
answered the man of
God,
and said, Behold, if the lord would make windows
in
heaven,
might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou
shalt
see
it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
12:007:003 And there were four leprous men at the
entering in of the
gate:
and they said one to another, Why sit we here until
we
die?
12:007:004 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 unto
the host of
the
Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live;
and if they
kill
us, we shall but die.
12:007:005 And they rose up in the twilight, to go
unto the camp of the
Syrians:
and when they were come to the uttermost part of the
camp
of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
12:007:006 For the lord had made the host of
the Syrians to hear a noise
of
chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of
a great
host:
and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel
hath
hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the
kings
of
the Egyptians, to come upon us.
12:007:007 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight,
and left their
tents,
and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as
it
was,
and fled for their life.
12:007:008 And when these lepers came to the uttermost
part of the camp,
they
went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried
thence
silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it;
and
came
again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence
also,
and went and hid it.
12:007:009 Then they said one to another, We do not
well: this day is a
day
of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we
tarry till
the
morning light, some mischief will come upon us:
now
therefore
come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
12:007:010 So they came and called unto the porter
of the city: and they
told
them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and,
behold,
there was no man there, neither voice of man, but
horses
tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.


