2 Sam. 20:15‑22• 15{i}And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it was raised in the trench; and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall, to throw it down.{/i}
16{i}And a wise woman cried out of the city, Hear, hear: say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.{/i}
17{i}And he came near to her; and the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I am he. And she said to him, Listen to the words of thy handmaid. And he said, I am listening.{/i}
18{i}And she spoke saying, They were wont to speak in old time saying, Just inquire in Abel; and so they ended.{/i}
19{i}I am peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?{/i}
20{i}And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.{/i}
21{i}The matter is not so; but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give up him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.{/i}
22{i}Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.{/i} (2 Sam. 20:15‑22)
2 Kings 6:24‑33• 24{i}And it came to pass after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.{/i}
25{i}And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.{/i}
26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee whence shall I help thee? {i}Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?{/i}
28{i}And the king said to her, What aileth thee?{/i} And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
29So we boiled my son and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him, and she hath hid her son.
30{i}And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his garments; and he was passing by upon the wall, and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.{/i}
31{i}And he said, God do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day!{/i}
32But Elisha sat in his house and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him; but ere the messengers came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head. {i}See, when the messenger comes; shut the door, and keep him off with the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?{/i}
33{i}And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. And the king said,{/i} Behold this evil is of Jehovah; what should I wait for Jehovah any longer. (2 Kings 6:24‑33)
2 Kings 7:1‑20• 1{i}And Elisha said{/i}, Hear ye the word of Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
2{i}And the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said{/i}, Behold, if Jehovah would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? {i}And he said{/i}, {i}Behold{/i}, Thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
3{i}And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?{/i}
4{i}If we say, Let us enter into the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we abide here, we shall die. And now come, let us fall away to the camp of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they put us to death, we shall but die.{/i}
5{i}And they rose up in the dusk to go to the camp of the Syrians; and they came to the extremity of the camp of the Syrians; and behold, there was no man there.{/i}
6{i}For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, a noise of a great host; and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.{/i}
7{i}And they rose up and fled in the dusk, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, the camp as it was, and fled for their life.{/i}
8{i}And those lepers came to the extremity of the camp; and they went into one tent, and ate and drank, and carried thence silver and gold, and garments, and went and hid it; and they came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence, and went and hid it.{/i}
9{i}And they said one to another, We are not doing right; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, the iniquity will find us out; and now come, let us go and tell the king's household.{/i}
10{i}And they came and called to the porters of the city, and told them saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one there, no sound of man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.{/i}
11{i}And the porters cried it and told it to the king's house within.{/i}
12{i}And the king rose up in the night and said to his servants, Let me tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry, and they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.{/i}
13{i}And one of his servants answered and said, Let someone take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that have perished), and let us send and see.{/i}
14{i}And they took two chariots with their horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.{/i}
15{i}And they went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and materials, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.{/i}
16{i}And the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians; and the measure of fine flour was at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel, according to the word of Jehovah.{/i}
17{i}And the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died, according to what the man of God had said, —what he had said when the king came down to him.{/i}
18{i}And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king saying, Two measures of barley shall be at a shekel, and the measure of fine flour at a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria.{/i}
19{i}And the captain answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.{/i}
20{i}And so it happened to him; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died.{/i} (2 Kings 7:1‑20)