¹⁶ The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

¹ Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, 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.

²³ Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.

⁴ Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap on it.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

²⁶ who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;

¹ Woe to you who destroy, and you weren't destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they didn't deal treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.

¹² "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home divides the spoil,

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

²⁵ When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.

¹² So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

¹³ Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.

¹⁴ They struck all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.

¹⁵ They struck also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

⁵³ The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?