2 Kings 7:16

Translations

Modern

Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

Traditional

And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

Literal

And the people went out and plundered the tents of Aram. And there was a seah of fine flour for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of YHWH.

Latin

Et egressus populus diripuit castra Syriæ: factusque est modius similæ statere uno, et duo modii hordei statere uno, juxta verbum Domini.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.

Notes

2 Kings 7:13–17

The abandoned items showed how quickly the Arameans fled, and the Israelites took goods from their camp. As Elisha predicted, food was now plentiful. Joram's skeptical officer was knocked down and trampled to death.

Theme notes and profiles

Elijah Elisha

Events

Prophecies of Elisha

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2 Kings 7:1
Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
Isaiah 33:23
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
Isaiah 33:4
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
2 Chronicles 20:25
Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
1 Samuel 17:53
When the Israelites returned from their pursuit of the Philistines, they plundered their camps.
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
2 Chronicles 14:12–15
So the LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Job 27:16–17
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Psalm 68:12
“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.
Isaiah 44:26
…who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’

Places

Syria: Ancient region north of Israel, often in conflict

Glossary

Elisha Kings, Books of First and Second Malachi, Book of Money Samaria

Topics

Ancient Samaria: Samaria the Capital of Remarkable Plenty In, As Foretold by Elisha Measure: A Seah, About a Peck and a Half Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: The End of the Famine in Samaria

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