2 Kings 7:20

And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

In Context

19And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:20Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

Isaiah 7:9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”

Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 7:13-20

Samaria Plentifully Supplied. ( b. c. 891.) 12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they 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. 13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the… Read the whole commentary →

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