2 Kings 7:18

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;"

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  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before 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? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2 : 1 Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, '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 the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."

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  • 2 Kgs 7:1-2
    2 verses
    91%

    1 Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, '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 the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."

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

    15 They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

    16 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 Yahweh.

    17 The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on 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 captain answered the man of God, and said, "Now, behold, if Yahweh 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 of it."

    20 It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

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

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

    42 A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."

    43 His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'"

  • 1 Kgs 4:22
    70%

    22 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 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 donkeys tied, and the tents as they were."

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

    12 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 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%

    24 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.

    25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

    26 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 but 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 it 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, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink."

    11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."

    12 She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."

  • 2 Kgs 6:28
    68%

    28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" 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 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

  • Ruth 3:15
    67%

    15 He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." 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%

    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 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.

  • 1 Kgs 17:14
    67%

    14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"

  • 2 Kgs 4:7
    67%

    7 Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons 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 market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

    6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

  • 1 Kgs 13:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

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

    8 The man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;

  • 2 Kgs 8:1-3
    3 verses
    66%

    1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

    2 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.

    3 It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines. Then she went forth to cry 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 Yahweh against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen."

  • 2 Kgs 8:6-7
    2 verses
    66%

    6 When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to 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 Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick. It was told him, saying, "The man of God has come here."

  • Rev 6:6
    66%

    6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

  • Ezek 4:10
    66%

    10 Your 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 Saul said 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 do we have?"

    8 The servant answered Saul again, and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the 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 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 18:2
    66%

    2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

  • Ezek 4:16
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    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 fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

  • Exod 9:31
    66%

    31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

  • 2 Chr 2:10
    66%

    10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters 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 she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31
    65%

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

  • Ezek 45:13
    65%

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