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So he sent horses and chariots there and a great army; they came by night, and surrounded the city.

Then Elisha prayed: "O Lord , please open his eyes that he may see." So the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw; the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

When the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord , and said, "Strike this people, please, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness as Elisha had asked.

As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O Lord , open the eyes of these men so that they may see." The Lord opened their eyes, and they saw that they were inside Samaria.

He answered, "No! Did you capture with your sword and your bow those whom you want to kill? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink; and let them go to their master."

So he prepared for them a great feast; after they ate and drank, he sent them on their way, and they went to their master. And the Arameans no longer came raiding into the land of Israel.

As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son and we will eat him.' But she has hidden her son."

and he said, "So may God do to me, and more, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat stays on his shoulders today."

So he dispatched a man from his presence. Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, "Are you aware that this murderer has sent someone to take off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you shut the door and hold it closed against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

So they arose at twilight to go to the Aramean camp; but when they came to the edge of the Aramean camp, there was no one there at all.

For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the sound of chariots, and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "The king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to fight against us."

So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys leaving the camp just as it was, and fled for their lives.

So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, "We went to the Aramean camp, but there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were."

The king got up in the night, and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Arameans have prepared against us. They know that we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'"

So they took two mounted men, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, "Go and find out."

So they went after them as far as the Jordan; the whole way was littered with garments and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned, and told the king.

Then the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Arameans. So a measure of choice meal was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord .

So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God; she went with her household and settled in the land of the Philistines seven years.

When the king questioned the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the revenue of the fields from the day that she left the land until now."