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Elisha’s Prophecy Fulfilled

2 Kings 7:20

In 11 translations

BSB
And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
KJV
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
WEB
It happened like that to him, for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died.
ASV
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
LSV
and it comes to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dies.
YLT
and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth.
DBY
And so it happened to him; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died.
DRC
And so it fell out to him as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
GNV
And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.
JPS
it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
LXXE
And it was so: for the people trampled on him in the gate, and he died.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְהִי־ל֖וֹ כֵּ֑ן וַיִּרְמְס֨וּ אֹת֥וֹ הָעָ֛ם בַּשַּׁ֖עַר וַיָּמֹֽת׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐγένετο οὕτως, καὶ συνεπάτησαν αὐτὸν ὁ λαὸς ἐν τῇ πύλῃ, καὶ ἀπέθανε.

Who and where

◆ Prophecies of Elisha

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 20:23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
  • 2 Chronicles 20:20Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld;…
  • Hebrews 3:18–19And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
  • Jeremiah 17:5–6This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD. He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He…
  • Numbers 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
  • Isaiah 7:9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”

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