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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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2 Kings 7:20

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Samaria, Ancient;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nergal;   Samaria;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Samaria;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Jehoram;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Samaria ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elisha;   Samaria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'sha;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what happened to him: the people trampled him in the city gate, and he died.
Hebrew Names Version
it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
King James Version
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
English Standard Version
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.
New Century Version
It happened to the officer just that way. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
Amplified Bible
And so it happened to him; for the people trampled him at the gate, and he died.
New American Standard Bible
And this is what happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
Legacy Standard Bible
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.
Contemporary English Version
And that's exactly what happened—the officer was trampled to death.
Complete Jewish Bible
That is exactly what happened to him, because the people trampled him down in the gateway, so that he died.
Darby Translation
And so it happened to him; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died.
Easy-to-Read Version
It happened to the officer just that way. The people knocked him down at the gate and trampled him, and he died.
George Lamsa Translation
And so it happened to him; for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.
Good News Translation
And that is just what happened to him—he died, trampled to death by the people at the city gate.
Lexham English Bible
So it had happened to him; the people trampled him in the gate and he died.
Literal Translation
And it happened to him in this way; yea, the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euen so fortuned it vnto him, for the people trode vpon him in the gate, yt he dyed.
American Standard Version
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
Bible in Basic English
And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And euen so chaunced it vnto him: For the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
King James Version (1611)
And so it fell out vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he died.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it was so: for the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died.
English Revised Version
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
Berean Standard Bible
And this is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfore it bifelde to hym, as it was biforseid; and the puple to-trad hym with feet in the yate, and he was deed.
Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth.
Update Bible Version
it came to pass even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
Webster's Bible Translation
And so it happened to him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
World English Bible
it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.
New King James Version
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
New Living Translation
And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate!
New Life Bible
So it happened to him. The people stepped on him at the gate, and he died.
New Revised Standard
It did indeed happen to him; the people trampled him to death in the gate.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea it fell out to him, thus, - and the people trode upon him in the gate, that he died.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And so it fell out to him, as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
Revised Standard Version
And so it happened to him, for the people trod upon him in the gate and he died.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.

Contextual Overview

12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, "I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.'" 13 One of his advisers replied, "Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people—we're all going to die!) Let's send them out so we can know for sure what's going on." 14 So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them, "Go and find out what's going on." 15 So they tracked them as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. The scouts went back and told the king. 16 Then the people went out and looted the Syrian camp. A seah of finely milled flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, just as the Lord had said they would. 17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. This fulfilled the prophet's word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. 18 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." 19 But the officer replied to the prophet, "Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?" Elisha said, "Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!" 20 This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 20:12, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Job 20:23, Isaiah 7:9, Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:6, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:33 - and he trode Jeremiah 29:32 - behold

Cross-References

Psalms 104:6
The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.
Jeremiah 3:23
We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And so it fell out unto him,.... As the prophet predicted:

for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died;

:-.


 
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