2 Kings 7:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
  • 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life?
  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2 : 1 Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria. 2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    91%

    1 Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.

    2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

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

    15 And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king.

    16 Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.

    17 And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.

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

    19 And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.

    20 And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.

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

    41 But he said, Get some meal. And he put it into the pot, and said, Now give it to the people so that they may have food. And there was nothing bad in the pot.

    42 Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

    43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.

  • 1 Kgs 4:22
    70%

    22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

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

    10 So they came in, and, crying out to the door-keepers of the town, they gave them the news, saying, We came to the tents of the Aramaeans, and there was no one there and no voice of man, only the horses and the asses in their places, and the tents as they were.

    11 Then the door-keepers, crying out, gave the news to those inside the king's house.

    12 Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.

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

    24 Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.

    25 And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

    26 And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.

  • 1 Kgs 20:6
    68%

    6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, to make a search through your house and the houses of your people, and everything which is pleasing in your eyes they will take away in their hands.

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

    10 So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?

    11 And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.

    12 Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    68%

    28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

  • Hag 2:16
    67%

    16 How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

  • Ruth 3:15
    67%

    15 And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    67%

    15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • 1 Kgs 17:16
    67%

    16 The store of meal did not come to an end, and the bottle was never without oil, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah.

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    67%

    14 For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    67%

    7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

  • Amos 8:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

    6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

  • 1 Kgs 13:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7 And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.

    8 But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of all you have, I would not go in with you, and I would not take food or a drink of water in this place;

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    66%

    1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.

    2 So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

    3 And when the seven years were ended, the woman came back from the land of the Philistines and went to the king with a request for her house and her land.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    66%

    32 For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

  • 2 Kgs 8:6-7
    2 verses
    66%

    6 And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.

    7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.

  • Rev 6:6
    66%

    6 And a voice came to my ears, from the middle of the four beasts, saying, A measure of grain for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny: and see that you do no damage to the oil and the wine.

  • Ezek 4:10
    66%

    10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

  • 1 Sam 9:7-8
    2 verses
    66%

    7 Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?

    8 But the servant said in answer, I have here a fourth part of a shekel of silver: I will give that to the man of God, and he will give us directions about our way.

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    66%

    8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 18:2
    66%

    2 So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

  • Ezek 4:16
    66%

    16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

  • Exod 9:31
    66%

    31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.

  • 2 Chr 2:10
    66%

    10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • Ruth 2:17
    66%

    17 So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    65%

    31 Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.

  • Ezek 45:13
    65%

    13 This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;