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| 7:1 |
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."
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| 7:2 |
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."
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| 7:3 |
Now there were four leprous men outside the city gate, who said to one another, "Why should we sit here until we die?
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| 7:4 |
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."
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| 7:5 |
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.
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| 7:6 |
For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to fight against us."
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| 7:7 |
So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys leaving the camp just as it was, and fled for their lives.
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| 7:8 |
When these leprous men had come to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent, ate and drank, carried off silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid them. Then they came back, entered another tent, carried off things from it, and went and hid them.
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| 7:9 |
Then they said to one another, "What we are doing is wrong. This is a day of good news; if we are silent and wait until the morning light, we will be found guilty; therefore let us go and tell the king's household."
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| 7:10 |
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."
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| 7:11 |
Then the gatekeepers called out and proclaimed it to the king's household.
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| 7:12 |
The king got up in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Arameans have prepared against us. They know that we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, 'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"
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| 7:13 |
One of his servants said, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses, since those left here will suffer the fate of the whole multitude of Israel that have perished already; let us send and find out."
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| 7:14 |
So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, "Go and find out."
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| 7:15 |
So they went after them as far as the Jordan; the whole way was littered with garments and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned, and told the king.
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| 7:16 |
Then the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a measure of choice meal was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
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| 7:17 |
Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate; the people trampled him to death in the gate, just as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.
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| 7:18 |
For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of choice meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,"
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| 7:19 |
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."
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| 7:20 |
It did indeed happen to him; the people trampled him to death in the gate.
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| 7:21 |
He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called it Jachin; and he set up the pillar on the north and called it Boaz.
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| 7:22 |
On the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.
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| 7:23 |
Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely.
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| 7:24 |
Under its brim were panels all around it, each of ten cubits, surrounding the sea; there were two rows of panels, cast when it was cast.
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| 7:25 |
It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set on them. The hindquarters of each were toward the inside.
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| 7:26 |
Its thickness was a handbreadth; its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
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| 7:27 |
He also made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
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| 7:28 |
This was the construction of the stands: they had borders; the borders were within the frames;
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| 7:29 |
on the borders that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.
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| 7:30 |
Each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.
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| 7:31 |
Its opening was within the crown whose height was one cubit; its opening was round, as a pedestal is made; it was a cubit and a half wide. At its opening there were carvings; its borders were four-sided, not round.
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| 7:32 |
The four wheels were underneath the borders; the axles of the wheels were in the stands; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.
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| 7:33 |
The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.
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| 7:34 |
There were four supports at the four corners of each stand; the supports were of one piece with the stands.
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| 7:35 |
On the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; on the top of the stand, its stays and its borders were of one piece with it.
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| 7:36 |
On the surfaces of its stays and on its borders he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, where each had space, with wreaths all around.
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| 7:37 |
In this way he made the ten stands; all of them were cast alike, with the same size and the same form.
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| 7:38 |
He made ten basins of bronze; each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits; there was a basin for each of the ten stands.
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| 7:39 |
He set five of the stands on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house; he set the sea on the southeast corner of the house.
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| 7:40 |
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:
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| 7:41 |
the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;
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| 7:42 |
the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
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| 7:43 |
the ten stands, the ten basins on the stands;
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| 7:44 |
the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.
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| 7:45 |
The pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze.
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| 7:46 |
In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
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| 7:47 |
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
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| 7:48 |
So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,
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| 7:49 |
the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, in front of the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
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| 7:50 |
the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; the sockets for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple, of gold.
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| 7:51 |
Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. Solomon brought in the things that his father David had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
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