1And Elisha said: “Hear the answer of LORD JEHOVAH: thus says LORD JEHOVAH, tomorrow at this time a seah of fine flour sells for a stater and two seahs of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria!” 2And the man of the King leaning on his hands answered and he said: “If LORD JEHOVAH shall make windows in Heaven, would this result occur?” And he said to him: “Behold, you shall see with your eyes and you shall not eat of it.”

3And four men who were lepers were sitting outside of the wall, and they said, each man to his fellow: “Why are we sitting here until we die? 4If we say, ‘We will enter within the city’, the famine is severe within the city and we will die there, and if we sit here, we are dying, but come, let us go to the encampment of Edom! If they will save us, we will live, and if they kill us, we will die!” 5And they arose at dawn to go to the encampment of Edom, and they arrived at the edge of the camp, and there was no one there. 6And LORD JEHOVAH had made heard the sound of horses to the encampment of Edom, and the sound of horsemen, and the sound of a mighty army, and they said, each man to his fellow man: “Behold, the King of Israel has hired against us the King of the Egyptians and the King of the Khethites to come against us!” 7And they arose and fled at dawn and they left their tents and their horses and their donkeys and their camp just as it was made, and they fled for their lives. 8And those men came to the border of the camp, and they entered one tent, and they ate and they drank and they took from there silver and gold and garments, and they went and they hid it and they returned, and they entered another tent and they picked up from there, and they went and they hid it.

9And they said, each man to his companion: “We are not doing rightly today! This is a day of good news, and how long will we be silent and wait, until the morning light will shine and sin will meet us? Come now, let us go and we will tell it in the house of the King!” 10And they came and they called the Gatekeepers of the city and they told them, and they said: “We went on to the encampment of Edom, and there is no man there nor the sound of a man, but horses are tied up and male donkeys are tied up, and the tents are as they were!” 11And the Gatekeepers called and told it within the house of the King. 12And the King arose in the night and said to his Servants: “I shall show you what the Edomites have done to us: they have known that we are hungry and they went out from the camp to hide in the wilderness, and they said, ‘When they have gone from the city, we will capture them alive and we will enter the city!” 13And one of his Servants answered and said: we should bring five of the horsemen who are left; if they are captured, they are to be considered as all the people of Israel that is finished, and we will send and we will see.” 14And two pairs of horsemen mounted horses and the King sent after the camp of Edom, and they said: “Go, see!”

15And they went after them unto the Jordan, and they saw all the road full of garments and weapons, because the Edomites had left in their haste, and the Messengers returned and told the King.

16And the people went out and they plundered the encampment of Edom, and there was a basket of fine flour for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel, as LORD JEHOVAH had said. 17And the King placed at the gate the Mighty Man of the King leaning on his hands, and the people trampled him in the gate and he died, as the Prophet of God said when the Messenger came down to him. 18And the word of the Prophet of God that he spoke to the King was: “A seah of fine flour for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel will be sold tomorrow at this time in the gate of Samaria.” 19And that Mighty Man had answered and said to the Prophet of God: “If LORD JEHOVAH made windows in Heaven, would this event happen?” And he had said to him: “Behold, you shall see with your eyes, and you shall not eat of it.” 20And it was so, and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.