2 Kings 7:1-2·~1 min
Elisha’s Prophecy of Plenty
Elisha declares that within a day Samaria will move from famine to abundance. The officer beside the king answers with disbelief, treating the promise as impossible.
T1hen Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’” 2But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?”
Section summaryElisha answers famine with a precise promise: by the next day, food at Samaria’s gate will be plentiful and cheap. The king’s officer meets that word with open disbelief, unable to imagine such a reversal even from the LORD.
Role in the chapterThis opening section sets the chapter’s tension in a single contrast: Elisha speaks the LORD’s word, and the officer rejects it. Everything that follows unfolds as the testing and fulfillment of that claim.