Let&#8217;s make a small private upper room<n id="1" /> and furnish it with<n id="2" /> a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.&#8221;p>

Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah<n id="1" /> of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had said they would.<n id="2" />p>

The prophet told the king, &#8220;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.&#8221;

They replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;He was a hairy man<n id="2" /> and had a leather belt<n id="3" /> tied around his waist.&#8221; The king<n id="4" /> said, &#8220;He is Elijah the Tishbite.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent<n id="1" /> woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal.<n id="2" /> So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.<n id="3" />

Then Jehu ordered, &#8220;Make arrangements for<n id="1" /> a celebration for Baal.&#8221; So they announced it.

until I come and take you to a land just like your own &#8211; a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don&#8217;t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will rescue us.&#8221;

Naaman said, &#8220;If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry,<n id="1" /> for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

Elisha<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;Go in peace.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">When he had gone a short distance,<n id="2" />

Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman&#8217;s wife.

Elisha told him, &#8220;Take a bow and some arrows,&#8221; and he did so.<n id="1" />

Samaria&#8217;s food supply ran out.<n id="1" /> They laid siege to it so long that<n id="2" /> a donkey&#8217;s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver<n id="3" /> and a quarter of a kab<n id="4" /> of dove&#8217;s droppings<n id="5" /> for five shekels of silver.<n id="6" />p>

King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, &#8220;A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, &#8216;Give your daughter to my son as a wife.&#8217; Then a wild animal<n id="1" /> of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn.<n id="2" />

But now, get me a musician.&#8221;<n id="1" /> When the musician played, the <sc>Lordsc> energized him,<n id="2" />

Let&#8217;s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.&#8221; He said, &#8220;Go.&#8221;

Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He imposed on the land a special tax<n id="2" /> of one hundred talents<n id="3" /> of silver and a talent of gold.

Look, I will take control of his mind;<n id="1" /> he will receive<n id="2" /> a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down<n id="3" /> with a sword in his own land.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

She said, &#8220;Did I ask my master for a son? Didn&#8217;t I say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t mislead me?&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot<n id="1" /> pulled by fiery horses appeared.<n id="2" /> They went between Elijah and Elisha,<n id="3" /> and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

Elisha replied, &#8220;Hear the word of the <sc>Lordsc>! This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;About this time tomorrow a seah<n id="1" /> of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.&#8217;&#8221;