2 Kings 7:1

7:1 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah ¹  of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Kings 7:16-18

7:16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah ²  of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. ³ 

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ⁴  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ⁵  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ⁶  7:18 The prophet told the king, “Two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of finely milled flour for a shekel; this will happen about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria.”

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¹ sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

² sn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about 7 quarts.

³ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

⁶ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”