2 Kings 7:2

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Then a lord {H7991} on whose hand {H3027} the king {H4428} leaned {H8172} answered {H6030} the man {H376} of God {H430}, and said {H559}, Behold, if the LORD {H3068} would make {H6213} windows {H699} in heaven {H8064}, might this thing {H1697} be? And he said {H559}, Behold, thou shalt see {H7200} it with thine eyes {H5869}, but shalt not eat {H398} thereof.

The servant on whose arm the king was leaning answered the man of God: "Why, this couldn't happen even if ADONAI made windows in heaven!" Elisha answered, "All right, you yourself will see it with your own eyes; but you won't eat any of it!"

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Note: Commentary was generated by an advanced AI, utilizing a prompt that emphasized Biblical fidelity over bias. We've found these insights to be consistently reliable, yet we always encourage prayerful discernment through the Holy Spirit. The Scripture text and cross-references are from verified, non-AI sources.

  • Malachi 3:10

    Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].

  • Genesis 7:11

    ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

  • Psalms 78:41

    Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

  • 2 Timothy 2:13

    If we believe not, [yet] he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

  • Romans 3:3

    For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

  • Hebrews 3:17

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  • Hebrews 3:19

    So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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