BRAGADAYJAH 1078

BRAGADAYJAH 1078

Elisha Promised Food in Abundance

And so it was that while the king was raging against Elisha, he was in his house sitting with the elders. And the king sent his messenger to fetch Elisha; but before the messenger came to him, Elisha told the elders that this king the son of a murderer, had vowed to take off his head and even then his messenger was on his way to his house. So he told the elders that when the messenger got to the door, they should bar it; for close behind him would be the sound of his master’s feet. And while Elisha was still speaking to the elders, the messenger came to the door and the sound of the footsteps of the king and his men could be heard.  And Elisha went out and proclaimed, in the name of the Lord that by morning, about that same time, a measure of fine flour would be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria. Then a man on whose arm the king leaned asked the man of God, how could God even if he made windows in heaven, make this thing come to pass.  And Elisha told him to wait and see it in the morning with his eyes, even though he, the king’s man, would not eat thereof. In the meantime, there were four lepers outside the gate; and they reasoned among themselves and asked one another why they were sitting there dying of starvation. They reasoned that if they continued sitting there death would certainly come to them. And if they went into the city they would be killed either way they would be dead.  So they decided to throw caution to the wind and enter the city, and go among the Syrians. What they possibly had to lose they ventured; they can either save us or kill us. So at twilight they rose up and went into the Syrian camp and searched from one end of it to the other; but not a man was found there.

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