2 Kings 7:18

American Standard Version (1901)

And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;

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  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2 : 1 And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith Jehovah, 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. 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

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  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    91%

    1And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith Jehovah, 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.

    2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

  • 2 Kgs 7:15-17
    3 verses
    84%

    15And they went after them unto the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

    16And the people went out, and plundered the camp 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 Jehovah.

    17And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

  • 2 Kgs 7:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof:

    20it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

  • 2 Kgs 4:41-43
    3 verses
    72%

    41But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

    42And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

    43And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

  • 1 Kgs 4:22
    70%

    22And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

  • 2 Kgs 7:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10So 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 the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.

    11And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.

    12And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.

  • 2 Kgs 6:24-26
    3 verses
    68%

    24And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

    25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [ [pieces] of silver.

    26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

  • 1 Kgs 20:6
    68%

    6but I will send my servants unto thee to-morrow about this time, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.

  • 1 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    68%

    10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

    11And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.

    12And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    68%

    28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

  • Hag 2:16
    67%

    16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.

  • Ruth 3:15
    67%

    15And he said, Bring the mantle that is upon thee, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    67%

    15Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

  • 1 Kgs 17:16
    67%

    16The jar of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Elijah.

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    67%

    14For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    67%

    7Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.

  • Amos 8:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

    6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • 1 Kgs 13:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

    8And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    66%

    1Now Elisha had spoken unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for Jehovah hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

    2And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

    3And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    66%

    32For the saying which he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

  • 2 Kgs 8:6-7
    2 verses
    66%

    6And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

    7And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

  • Rev 6:6
    66%

    6And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the wine hurt thou not.

  • Ezek 4:10
    66%

    10And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

  • 1 Sam 9:7-8
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    7Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

    8And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    66%

    8And the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 18:2
    66%

    2And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

  • Ezek 4:16
    66%

    16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

  • Exod 9:31
    66%

    31And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

  • 2 Chr 2:10
    66%

    10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

  • Ruth 2:17
    66%

    17So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    65%

    31Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

  • Ezek 45:13
    65%

    13This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;