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|2 Reyes 6:21|
When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?”
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|2 Reyes 6:22|
“Do not kill them,” he answered. “Would you kill men you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.”
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|2 Reyes 6:23|
So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel’s territory.
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|2 Reyes 6:24|
Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilised his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria.
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|2 Reyes 6:25|
There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels [That is, about 2 pounds (about 1 kilogram)] of silver, and a quarter of a cab [That is, probably about 1/2 pint (about 0.3 litre)] of seed pods [Or of dove’s dung] for five shekels. [That is, about 2 ounces (about 55 grams)]
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|2 Reyes 6:26|
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
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|2 Reyes 6:27|
The king replied, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing-floor? From the winepress?”
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|2 Reyes 6:28|
Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, `Give up your son so that we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’
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|2 Reyes 6:29|
So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, `Give up your son so that we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
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|2 Reyes 6:30|
When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and there, underneath, he had sackcloth on his body.
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Sugerencias
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