2 Kings 6:32

Overview - 2 Kings 6
Elisha, giving leave to the young prophets to enlarge their dwellings, causes iron to swim.
He discloses the king of Syria's counsel.
13 The army which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elisha, is smitten with blindness.
19 Being brought into Samaria, they are dismissed in peace.
24 The famine in Samaria causes women to eat their own children.
30 The king sends to slay Elisha.
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2 Kings 6:32  (King James Version)
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
 


the elders
Ezekiel 8:1 ; 14:1 20:1 33:31

ere the messenger
12 ; 5:26

See ye how
Luke 13:32

son of a murderer
1 Kings 18:4 1 Kings 18:13 1 Kings 18:14 ; 21:10

the sound
1 Kings 14:6