¹³ One of his attendants suggested, “Please, let’s take five of the remaining horses, since those who remain here will end up like the rest of Israel, which has already died, and we’ll send them out to look.” ¹⁴ So they took two chariots and horses, and the king sent them out after the Aramean army with the orders, “Go and look!”

The Prophecy is Fulfilled

¹⁵ They went out in the direction of the Jordan River,^[a] and the entire roadway was strewn with clothes and equipment that the Arameans had abandoned in their haste to leave!^[b] So the messengers returned and reported to the king. ¹⁶ At this, the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. At that time, a seah^[c] of finely ground flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in accordance with the Lord’s message.

¹⁷ Meanwhile, the king appointed the same royal attendant on whom he depended^[d] to take control of the city gate, but the people trampled him to death in the gate, just as the man of God had told the king when the king came down to him. ¹⁸ It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king:

¹⁹ But the royal attendant on whom the king depended responded to the man of God: “Look here! Even if the Lord were to make a window in the sky, how could this happen?”

He replied, “No, you look! You’ll see it with your eyes, but you won’t eat any of it!”^[f]

²⁰ And so it happened to him, because the people trampled him in the city gate and he died.

¹¹ Hiram-abi^[a] crafted the pots, shovels, and basins, thus completing the work that he did for King Solomon on the Temple of God; ¹² that is, the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals on top of the pillars, the two lattice works that covered the two bowls for the capitals that were on top of the pillars; ¹³ the 400 pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework having two rows of ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of each pillar); ¹⁴ the ten^[b] stands with their ten basins; ¹⁵ the large bronze basin called the Sea with the twelve oxen underneath, ¹⁶ along with its pots, shovels, forks, and all of its other implements that Hiram-abi made from polished bronze for King Solomon and the Lord’s Temple.