Now, run to meet her and ask her, &#8216;Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?&#8217;&#8221; She told Gehazi,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Everything&#8217;s fine.&#8221;

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk.<n id="1" /> In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

Furthermore it was by the command of the <sc>Lordsc> that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The <sc>Lordsc> told me, &#8216;March<n id="1" /> up against this land and destroy it.&#8217;&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Certainly you must have heard!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Long ago I worked it out,p> <p class="poetry">In ancient times I planned<n id="3" /> it;p> <p class="poetry">and now I am bringing it to pass.p> <p class="poetry">The plan is this:p> <p class="poetry">Fortified cities will crashp> <p class="poetry">into heaps of ruins.<n id="4" />p>

He answered, &#8220;Everything is fine.<n id="1" /> My master sent me with this message, &#8216;Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country.<n id="2" /> Please give them a talent<n id="3" /> of silver and two suits of clothes.&#8217;&#8221;

The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details.<n id="1" /> The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.&#8221;p>

But the <sc>Lordsc> had mercy on them and felt pity for them.<n id="1" /> He extended his favor to them<n id="2" /> because of the promise he had made<n id="3" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.<n id="4" />

Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.