2 Kings 7:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    It happened just as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel and a seah of fine flour for a shekel at the gate of Samaria."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it came to pass, as the man{H376} of God{H430} had spoken{H1696} to the king,{H4428} saying,{H559} Two measures{H5429} of barley{H8184} for a shekel,{H8255} and a measure{H5429} of fine flour{H5560} for a shekel,{H8255} shall be to-morrow{H4279} about this time{H6256} in the gate{H8179} of Samaria;{H8111}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it came to pass as the man{H376} of God{H430} had spoken{H1696}{(H8763)} to the king{H4428}, saying{H559}{(H8800)}, Two measures{H5429} of barley{H8184} for a shekel{H8255}, and a measure{H5429} of fine flour{H5560} for a shekel{H8255}, shall be to morrow{H4279} about this time{H6256} in the gate{H8179} of Samaria{H8111}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And it came to passe euen as ye man of God tolde the kynge, wha he sayde: Tomorow aboute this tyme shall two bu?shels of barlye be solde for one Sycle, and a bu?shel fyne meel for one Sycle vnder the gate at Samaria.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the King, saying, Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine floure shall be at a shekel, to morowe about this time in the gate of Samaria.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And so came the thing to passe, that the man of God had spoken to the king, saying: Two bushels of barlye for a sicle, and a bushell of fyne flowre for another shalbe to morowe this tyme in the gate of Samaria.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    It happened, 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 tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    yea, it cometh to pass, according to the speaking of the man of God unto the king, saying, `Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine flour at a shekel are, at this time to-morrow, in the gate of Samaria;'

  • 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;

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    It happened, 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 tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;"

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.”

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man ahead of him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2 : 1 Then Elisha said, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.

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, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

    2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.

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

    15 And they went after them to 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.

    16 And the people went out, and looted 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.

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

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

    19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.

    20 And so it happened to him: for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.

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

    41 But he said, Then bring flour. 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.

    42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk of it. And he said, Give to the people, that they may eat.

    43 And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus says the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave some.

  • 1 Kgs 4:22
    70%

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

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

    10 So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no one there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.

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

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

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

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

    25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

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

  • 1 Kgs 20:6
    68%

    6 Yet I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put in their hand, and take it away.

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

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

    11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Please, bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.

    12 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have a cake, but only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    68%

    28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

  • Hag 2:16
    67%

    16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

  • Ruth 3:15
    67%

    15 Also he said, Bring the veil that you have upon you, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    67%

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:16
    67%

    16 And the barrel of meal did not waste, nor did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Elijah.

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    67%

    14 For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, nor shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    67%

    7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live on the rest.

  • Amos 8:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the balances with deceit?

    6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • 1 Kgs 13:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7 And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.

    8 And the man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place:

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    66%

    1 Then Elisha spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go you and your household, and stay wherever you can stay: for the LORD has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land for seven years."

    2 And the woman arose, and did according to the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

    3 And it happened at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went to plead to the king for her house and for her land.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
    66%

    32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, 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%

    6 And 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."

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

  • Rev 6:6
    66%

    6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see that you do not harm the oil and the wine.

  • Ezek 4:10
    66%

    10 And the food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

  • 1 Sam 9:7-8
    2 verses
    66%

    7 Then said Saul to his servant, But behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is gone from our vessels, and there is no present to bring to the man of God: what do we have?

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

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    66%

    8 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 18:2
    66%

    2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.

  • Ezek 4:16
    66%

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

  • Exod 9:31
    66%

    31 And the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bud.

  • 2 Chr 2:10
    66%

    10 And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodcutters who 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%

    17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    65%

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

  • Ezek 45:13
    65%

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

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