2 Kings 7:18 in context
2 Kings 7:15–20
They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.
The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the LORD’s word.
The king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate; and the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
It happened like that to him, for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
- A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.
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