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          DASV: 2 Kings 6    

1 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Look, the place
we are living with you is too small for us.
2 Please, let us go to the Jordan River, and each of us
will get a log and make a place for us to live there."
He replied, "Go ahead."
3 One of them said, "Please, come with your servants."
He replied, "I will."
4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan,
they began cutting down trees.
5 But as one of them was cutting down a tree, the ax head
fell into the water. He yelled, "Oh, my master,
it was borrowed."
6 The man of God said, "Where did it fall?" He showed
him the place. Elisha cut down a stick, and threw it in
at that spot, and made the iron ax head float.
7 Then Elisha said, "Pick it up." So he reached out his
hand and grabbed it.

8 Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel so he consulted
with his officers, saying, "We should set up camp in such
and such a place."
9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying,
"Beware that you don't pass by this place, because the
Arameans are going down there."
10 The king of Israel sent a message to the place the man
of God told and warned him about. So several times he
protected himself in such places.
11 The heart of the king of Aram was very troubled over this.
So he summoned his officers, and asked them, "Which of you
has betrayed us to the king of Israel?"
12 One of his officers said, "No, my lord, O king, but Elisha,
the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel
the very words you speak in your bedroom."

13 So the king ordered, "Go and find out where he is, so
that I may send troops and capture him." He was told,
"Look, he is in Dothan."
14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots and a large army there.
They came at night and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God got up early,
and went out, an army with horses and chariots was
surrounding the city. His servant asked him, "Oh no,
my master! What can we do now?"
16 He replied, "Do not be afraid; for there are more
with us than there are with them."
17 Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD, I pray, open his
eyes, so that he may see." The LORD opened the eyes
of the young man, and he saw that the mountain was
full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD,
and said, "Please strike this people with blindness."
So he struck them with blindness according to the word
of Elisha.
19 Then Elisha said to them, "This is the wrong way and
the wrong city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the
man whom you are seeking." Then he led them to Samaria.
20 When they arrived at Samaria, Elisha prayed, "LORD,
open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the
LORD opened their eyes, and they saw that they were in
the middle of Samaria.

21 When he saw them, the king of Israel asked Elisha, "My
father, should I kill them? Should I kill them?"
22 He answered, "No, do not kill them. Would you kill
those you have taken captive with your sword and bow? Give
them food and water, so they may eat and drink, and then
return to their master."
23 So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they
had eaten and drunk, he sent them on their way, and
they returned to their master. After that no more
raiding parties from Aram entered the land of Israel.

24 A while later, Benhadad king of Aram gathered his entire
army, went up and besieged Samaria.
25 There was a great famine in Samaria. They laid siege to
it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of
silver, and a cup of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall,
a woman cried out to him, "Help, my lord, O king."
27 He replied, "If the LORD does not help you, how can I
help you? From the empty threshing floor or winepress?"
28 The king asked her, "What is the problem?" She replied,
"This woman said to me, 'Give up your son, let's eat him
today, and tomorrow we will eat my son.'
29 So we boiled my son, and ate him. The next day I said
to her, 'Give up your son, so we may eat him,' and now
she has hidden her son."
30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his
clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could
see that he was wearing sackcloth next to his skin under
his robe.
31 Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the
head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on his shoulders
today."
32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were
sitting with him. The king sent a messenger but before
the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, "Are you
not aware that this son of a murderer has sent someone to
cut off my head? When the messenger arrives, shut the
door and hold it closed against him. Is not the sound
of his master's feet coming behind him?"
33 Right then, while he was yet talking with them, the
messenger arrived. He said, "This evil is from the LORD.
Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"

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