Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

Then the captain on whose hand the queen leaned answered the woman of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? She said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

Now there were four leprous women at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the army of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no woman there.

For the Domina had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the queen of Israel has hired against us the queens of the Hittites, and the queens of the Egyptians, to come on us.

Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.

Then they said one to another, We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we hold our peace: if we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the queen's household.

So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no woman there, neither voice of woman, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.

She called the porters; and they told it to the queen's household within.

The queen arose in the night, and said to her servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.

One of her servants answered, Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are consumed); and let us send and see.

They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the queen sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

They went after them to the Jordan: and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the queen.

The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

The queen appointed the captain on whose hand she leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod on her in the gate, and she died as the woman of God had said, who spoke when the queen came down to her.

It happened, as the woman of God had spoken to the queen, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;

and that captain answered the woman of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and she said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:

it happened even so to her; for the people trod on her in the gate, and she died.