2 Kings 6:12
One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
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2 Kings 5:3She said to her mistress, “I wish that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.”
2 Kings 5:13His servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
2 Kings 6:9The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there.”
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”
Jeremiah 23:23“Am I a God at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a God afar off?
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 6:9-13
The Syrians Ensnared; the Syrians Generously Liberated. ( b. c. 893.) 8 Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. 9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. 11 Therefore the heart of the king of… Read the whole commentary →