Elisha declared that in a day's time food would be cheap again but an officer of the king ridiculed this. So Elisha replied that the officer would see it with his own eyes but would not eat any of it.
At dusk 4 men with leprosy walked to the camp of the Arameans to surrender to them rather than die of hunger, but when they got there the place was deserted. This had happened because God had caused them to hear the rumblings of a mighty army and they thought it was the Egyptians and the Hittites. When the lepers returned to the Israelites and told them what they had found skepticism faced them at first, but a search party soon confirmed their story so that the people could plunder the Aramean camp and food prices collapsed as Elisha had foretold. However the sceptic officer died in the stampede to invade the Aramean camp.
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