- When the people were informed that the Arameans fled, they went out into their camp and plundered from it all the food and spoils.
- The price of flour and barley: Due to the newly found great abundance of grain, a seah of fine flour was sold in the market for a shekel, and likewise two seahs of barley was sold in the market for a shekel, just as Elisha had prophesized would occur.
- The king’s minister is trampled and killed: The king appointed his minister, who expressed disbelief of the prophecy, to watch over the gate of the city, and the people [in their great haste to get some food] trampled over him and he died, just as Elisha had prophesized would occur when the king visited him the day before. You see, on the previous day, when Elisha told the king that by the next day two seahs of barley will be sold for a shekel and a seah of fine flour will be sold for a Shekel in the gates of Shomron, the above-mentioned officer replied to Elisha in disbelief saying that he does not expect G-d to make windows in the sky for the food to fall through. Elisha then replied to him saying that he will indeed witness the miracle of the abundance of food but will not get to partake in it, and this is exactly what happened to him, as the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
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