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But he said to him, "Did I not go with you in spirit when someone left his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to accept money and to accept clothing, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?

But as one was felling a log, his ax head fell into the water; he cried out, "Alas, master! It was borrowed."

But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Take care not to pass this place, because the Arameans are going down there."

But then the king asked her, "What is your complaint?" She answered, "This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son; we will eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son and we will eat him.' But she has hidden her son."

But Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord : thus says the Lord , Tomorrow about this time a measure of choice meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria."

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it."

If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall also die. Therefore, let us desert to the Aramean camp; if they spare our lives, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die."

So they arose at twilight to go to the Aramean camp; but when they came to the edge of the Aramean camp, there was no one there at all.

So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, "We went to the Aramean camp, but there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were."

the captain had answered the man of God, "Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?" And he had answered, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it."

Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover'; but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die."

But the next day he took the bed-cover and dipped it in water and spread it over the king's face, until he died. And Hazael succeeded him.

Then Joram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. He set out by night and attacked the Edomites and their chariot commanders who had surrounded him; but his army fled home.

but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him, when he fought against King Hazael of Aram. So Jehu said, "If this is your wish, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel."

So the horseman went to meet him; he said, "Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?'" Jehu responded, "What have you to do with peace? Fall in behind me." The sentinel reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back."

Again the sentinel reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. It looks like the driving of Jehu son of Nimshi; for he drives like a maniac."

But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

But they were utterly terrified and said, "Look, two kings could not withstand him; how then can we stand?"

Then in the morning when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him; but who struck down all these?