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2 Kings 6:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Each time, Elisha would send this warning to the king of Israel: “Don't go near there. That's where the Syrian troops have set up camp.”

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At that very moment, a prophet ran up to Ahab and said, “You can see that Benhadad's army is very strong. But the LORD has promised to help you defeat them today. Then you will know that the LORD is in control.”

The prophet went to Ahab and said, “The Syrians think the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys. So he has promised to help you defeat their powerful army. Then you will know that the LORD is in control.”

One day the widow of one of the LORD's prophets said to Elisha, “You know that before my husband died, he was a follower of yours and a worshipper of the LORD. But he owed a man some money, and now that man is on his way to take my two sons as his slaves.”

But as soon as she got to the top of the mountain, she went over and grabbed Elisha by the feet. Gehazi started towards her to push her away, when Elisha said, “Leave her alone! Don't you see how sad she is? But the LORD hasn't told me why.”

After she told Elisha what had happened, he said, “Sell the oil and use part of the money to pay what you owe the man. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

So the king would warn the Israelite troops in that place to be on guard.

“None of us, Your Majesty,” one of them answered. “It's an Israelite named Elisha. He's a prophet, so he can tell his king everything—even what you say in your own room.”

Time after time, when the king of Syria was at war against the Israelites, he met with his officers and announced, “I've decided where we will set up camp.”

God swiftly traps the wicked in their own evil schemes, and their wisdom fails.

The LORD destroys the plans and spoils the schemes of the nations.

The LORD watches over everyone who shows good sense, but he frustrates the plans of deceitful liars.

Some people plotted to kill me. And like a lamb being led to the butcher, I knew nothing about their plans. But then the LORD told me that they had planned to chop me down like a tree— fruit and all— so that no one would ever remember me again.

Whatever the LORD God plans to do, he tells his servants, the prophets.

This is what God showed to Jesus Christ, so that he could tell his servants what must happen soon. Christ then sent his angel with the message to his servant John.




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