2 Kings 7:20
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New International Version (©2011)
And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate!

English Standard Version (©2001)
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And so it happened to him, for the people trampled on him at the gate and he died.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This is what happened to him: the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

International Standard Version (©2012)
And so it happened to him, because the people trampled him in the city gate and he died.

NET Bible (©2006)
This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So this is what happened to the king's servant: The people trampled him to death in the gateway.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And so it happened unto him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

American King James Version
And so it fell out to him: for the people stepped on him in the gate, and he died.

American Standard Version
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And so it fell out to him as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Darby Bible Translation
And so it happened to him; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died.

English Revised Version
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

Webster's Bible Translation
And so it happened to him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

World English Bible
It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:12-20 Here see the wants of Israel supplied in a way they little thought of, which should encourage us to depend upon the power and goodness of God in our greatest straits. God's promise may be safely relied on, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. The nobleman that questioned the truth of Elisha's word, saw the plenty, to silence and shame his unbelief, and therein saw his own folly; but he did not eat of the plenty he saw. Justly do those find the world's promises fail them, who think that the promises of God will disappoint them. Learn how deeply God resents distrust of his power, providence, and promise: how uncertain life is, and the enjoyments of it: how certain God's threatenings are, and how sure to come on the guilty. May God help us to inquire whether we are exposed to his threatenings, or interested in his promises.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - And so it fell out unto him; i.e. the prophecy was exactly fulfilled. The lord, being appointed to keep order in the gate where the corn was sold, "saw with his eyes" (ver. 2) the wonderful fall of prices within the short space of twenty-four hours, which Elisha had prophesied; but "did not eat thereof" - did not, in his own person, obtain any benefit from the sudden plenty, since he perished before he could profit by it. For the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died (see the comment on ver. 17).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And so it fell out unto him,.... As the prophet predicted:

for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died; See Gill on 2 Kings 7:17.

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The Syrians Flee
…18And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: 19And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof. 20And so it fell out to him: for the people stepped on him in the gate, and he died.

2 Kings 7:19 The officer had said to the man of God, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?" The man of God had replied, "You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!"
2 Kings 8:1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the LORD has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years."