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2 Re 7:1

Listen to 2 Re 7:1
1 Allora Eliseo disse: "Ascoltate la parola dell’Eterno! Così dice l’Eterno: Domani, a quest’ora, alla porta di Samaria, la misura di fior di farina si avrà per un siclo, e le due misure d’orzo si avranno per un siclo".

2 Re 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 7:1

Then Elisha said, hear the word of the Lord
This he said to the king and those that were with him:

thus saith the Lord, tomorrow, about this time;
which very probably was the forenoon:

shall a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel;
"a seah", the measure here spoken of, or "saturn", according to some F18, was a gallon and an half; but Bishop Cumberland F19 makes it two wine gallons and an half; and a shekel, according to his accurate computation, was two shillings and four pence farthing, and near the eighth part of one {t}:

and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria;
where the market was kept; the same sort of measure and of money is here used as before; and we learn from hence that a measure of wheat was equal to two of barley.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 Godwin, ut supra. (Moses & Aaron, B. 6. c. 9.)
F19 Of Scripture Weights and Measures, c. 3. p. 86.
F20 lb. c. 4. p. 104, 105.
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2 Re 7:1 In-Context

1 Allora Eliseo disse: "Ascoltate la parola dell’Eterno! Così dice l’Eterno: Domani, a quest’ora, alla porta di Samaria, la misura di fior di farina si avrà per un siclo, e le due misure d’orzo si avranno per un siclo".
2 Ma il capitano sul cui braccio il re s’appoggiava, rispose all’uomo di Dio: "Ecco, anche se l’Eterno facesse delle finestre in cielo, potrebbe mai avvenire una cosa siffatta?" Eliseo rispose: "Ebbene, lo vedrai con gli occhi tuoi, ma non ne mangerai".
3 Or v’erano quattro lebbrosi presso all’entrata della porta, i quali dissero tra di loro: "Perché vogliam noi restar qui finché moriamo?
4 Se diciamo: Entriamo in città in città c’è la fame, e noi vi morremo; se restiamo qui, morremo lo stesso. Or dunque venite, andiamoci a buttare nel campo dei Siri; se ci lascian vivere, vivremo; se ci dànno la morte, morremo".
5 E, sull’imbrunire, si mossero per andare al campo dei Siri; e come furon giunti all’estremità del campo dei Siri, ecco che non v’era alcuno.
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