Barley Ear Elisha Eli'sha Fine Flour Gate Listen Market-place Meal Measure Measures Morrow Offered Price Samaria Sama'ria Says Seah Seahs Sell Shekel Sold Thus Tomorrow To-morrow
7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, {a} To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
(a) The godly are always assured of God's help in their necessity, but the times and hours are only revealed by God's Spirit.
7:1 Measure - Heb. Seah, a measure containing six cabs, or about a peck and pottle of our measure.
7:1,2 Man's extremity is God's opportunity of making his own power to be glorious: his time to appear for his people is when their strength is gone. Unbelief is a sin by which men greatly dishonour and displease God, and deprive themselves of the favours he designed for them. Such will be the portion of those that believe not the promise of eternal life; they shall see it at a distance, but shall never taste of it. But no temporal deliverances and mercies will in the end profit sinners, unless they are led to repentance by the goodness of God.
Barley Elisha Eli'sha Fine Flour Gate Hear Measure Measures Morrow Samaria Shekel Sold Time Tomorrow To-Morrow Word
Barley Elisha Eli'sha Fine Flour Gate Hear Measure Measures Morrow Samaria Shekel Sold Time Tomorrow To-Morrow Word
