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Second Book of Kings, Chapter 7

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Chapter 7 of 2 Kings—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ E·liʹsha now said: “Listen, YOU men, to the word of Jehovah.1 This is what Jehovah has said, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah[a] measure of fine flour will be worth a shekel,[b] and two seah measures of barley worth a shekel in the gateway of Sa·marʹi·a.’”2
  2. At that the adjutant upon whose hand the king was supporting3 himself answered the man of the [true] God and said: “If Jehovah were making floodgates in the heavens,4 could this thing take place?”5 To this he said: “Here you are seeing it with your own eyes,6 but from it you will not eat.”7
  3. ¶ And there were four men, lepers, that happened to be at the entrance of the gate;8 and they began to say the one to the other: “Why are we sitting here until we have died?
  4. If we had said, ‘Let us enter the city,’ when the famine is in the city, we would also have to die there.9 And if we do sit here, we shall also have to die. So now come and let us invade the camp of the Syrians. If they preserve us alive, we shall live; but if they put us to death, then we shall have to die.”10
  5. Accordingly they rose up in the evening darkness to enter the camp of the Syrians; and they got to come as far as the outskirts of the camp of the Syrians, and, look! nobody was there.
  6. ¶ And Jehovah[c] himself had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear11 the sound of war chariots, the sound of horses, the sound of a great military force,12 so that they said to one another: “Look! The king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hitʹtites13 and the kings of Egypt14 to come against us!”
  7. Immediately they got up and went fleeing in the evening darkness15 and leaving their tents and their horses16 and their asses—the camp just as it was—and they kept fleeing for their soul.[d]17
  8. ¶ When these lepers came as far as the outskirts of the camp, they then entered into one tent and began to eat and drink and carry from there silver and gold and garments and go off and stick them away. After that they returned and entered into another tent and carried things from there and went off and stuck them away.18
  9. ¶ Finally they began to say the one to the other: “It is not right what we are doing. This day is a day of good news!19 If we are hesitating, and we actually wait until the morning light, guilt must also catch up with us.20 So now come and let us enter and make report at the king’s house.”
  10. So they came and called to the gatekeepers21 of the city and reported to them, saying: “We came into the camp of the Syrians, and, look! there was nobody there nor sound of a man, but only the horses tied and the asses tied and the tents just as they were.”22
  11. At once the gatekeepers called out and they reported to the king’s house inside.
  12. ¶ Immediately the king rose up by night and said to his servants:23 “Let me tell YOU, please, what the Syrians have done to us.24 They well know that we are hungry;25 and so they went out from the camp to hide themselves in the field,26 saying, ‘They will come out from the city, and we shall catch them alive, and into the city we shall enter.’”
  13. Then one of his servants answered and said: “Let them take, please, five of the remaining horses that have remained in the city.27 Look! They are the same as all the crowd of Israel that have remained in it. Look! They are the same as all the crowd of Israel that have perished.28 And let us send out and see.”
  14. Accordingly they took two chariots with horses and the king sent them out after the camp of the Syrians, saying: “Go and see.”
  15. At that they went following them as far as the Jordan; and, look! all the way was full of garments and utensils29 that the Syrians had thrown away as they were hurrying away.30 Then the messengers returned and reported to the king.
  16. ¶ And the people proceeded to go out and plunder31 the camp of the Syrians; and so a seah measure of fine flour came to be worth a shekel, and two seah measures of barley worth a shekel, according to the word32 of Jehovah.
  17. And the king himself had appointed the adjutant upon whose hand he was supporting33 himself to have charge of the gateway; and the people kept trampling34 him in the gateway, so that he died, just as the man of the [true] God had spoken,35 when he spoke at the time that the king came down to him.
  18. Thus it came about just as the man of the [true] God had spoken to the king, saying: “Two seah measures of barley worth a shekel and a seah measure of fine flour worth a shekel it will come to be tomorrow at this time in the gateway of Sa·marʹi·a.”36
  19. But the adjutant answered the man of the [true] God and said: “Even if Jehovah were making floodgates in the heavens, could it take place according to this word?”37 To this he said: “Here you are seeing it with your own eyes, but from it you will not eat.”38
  20. Thus it happened to him like that,39 when the people kept trampling40 him in the gateway, so that he died.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ A seah equaled 7.33 L (6.66 dry qt).
  2. ^ See App 8A.
  3. ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
  4. ^ Or, “life.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Am 3:7; Heb 1:1
  2. ^ De 32:36; Jg 5:11; 2Ki 7:18
  3. ^ 2Ki 5:18
  4. ^ Ge 7:11; Ps 78:23; Ml 3:10
  5. ^ Nu 14:11; 2Th 3:2
  6. ^ Nu 11:23; 2Ch 20:20
  7. ^ 2Ki 7:17
  8. ^ Le 13:46; De 24:8
  9. ^ 2Ki 6:25
  10. ^ La 4:9
  11. ^ Pr 20:12
  12. ^ De 28:7; 2Sa 5:24; 2Ki 19:7
  13. ^ 1Ki 10:29; 2Ch 1:17
  14. ^ 2Ch 12:2
  15. ^ Ps 48:5; Pr 28:1
  16. ^ Ps 33:17; Pr 21:31
  17. ^ Ge 2:7
  18. ^ Je 41:8
  19. ^ Na 1:15; 1Co 10:24; Pp 2:4; 1Th 5:15
  20. ^ 1Ti 6:10
  21. ^ 2Sa 18:26; Ps 127:1; Mr 13:34
  22. ^ 2Ki 7:7
  23. ^ 2Ki 6:8
  24. ^ Pr 14:15
  25. ^ 2Ki 6:25, 29
  26. ^ Jos 8:4, 12; Jg 20:29, 37
  27. ^ 2Ki 6:25
  28. ^ La 4:9
  29. ^ Es 1:7; Is 22:24
  30. ^ Ps 68:12; Is 2:20; Mt 16:26
  31. ^ 2Ch 20:25; Ps 68:12; Is 33:1
  32. ^ Nu 23:19; 2Ki 7:1; Is 44:26; 55:11
  33. ^ 2Ki 5:18
  34. ^ 2Ki 9:33; Is 25:10
  35. ^ De 32:35; 2Ki 7:2; 2Ch 36:16; Is 5:24; 28:22; Na 1:2
  36. ^ 2Ki 7:1; Is 44:26
  37. ^ Nu 20:12; Ps 78:19
  38. ^ 2Ki 7:2
  39. ^ 2Ch 20:20
  40. ^ Is 41:25

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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