2 Kings 7:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Then the captain, the king’s right-hand man,  , responded to the man of God,  ‘Look, even if the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen? ’ Elisha announced, ‘You will in fact see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat any of it.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, If the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be? But Elisha said, You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Common English Bible

² Then the officer, the one the king leaned on for support, spoke to the man of God: “Come on! Even if the LORD should make windows in the sky, how could that happen?” Elisha said, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you won’t eat from it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And one of the leaders, upon whose hand the king leaned, responding to the man of God, said, "Even if the Lord will open the floodgates of heaven, how can what you say possibly be?" And he said, "You will see it with your own eyes, and you will not eat from it."

2 Kings 7:2 Cross References

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open,  the floodgates of the sky were opened,

2 Kings 5:18

However, in a particular matter may the Lord pardon your servant: When my master, the king of Aram, goes into the temple of Rimmon to bow in worship while he is leaning on my arm,  , and I have to bow in the temple of Rimmon #– #when I bow  in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.’

2 Chronicles 20:20

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, ‘Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established;  believe in his prophets, and you will succeed.’

Isaiah 7:9

the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria, and the chief of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.

Jeremiah 29:32

this is what the Lord says: I am about to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. There will not be even one of his descendants living among these people,  nor will any ever see the good that I will bring to my people #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #for he has preached rebellion against the Lord.” ’

Malachi 3:10

Bring the full tenth into the storehouse  so that there may be food in my house.  Test me in this way,’  says the Lord of Armies. ‘See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven  and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

Numbers 11:13

Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are weeping to me, “Give us meat to eat! ”

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he might lie, or a son of man, that he might change his mind. Does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfil?

Romans 3:3

What then? If some were unfaithful,  will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness?

Deuteronomy 3:27

Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross the Jordan.

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.