2 Kings 7:20 “And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the…”

2 Kings 7:20

And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

World English Bible

It happened like that to him, for the people trampled over him in the gate, and he died.

American Standard Version

it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Geneva Bible 1599

And so it came vnto him: for the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.

Darby Translation

And so it happened to him; and the people trampled upon him in the gate, and he died.

Young's Literal Translation

and it cometh to him so, and the people tread him down in the gate, and he dieth.

Bible in Basic English

And such was his fate; for he was crushed to death under the feet of the people, in the doorway into the town.

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Cross references

“And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.”

Numbers 20:12 2 Chronicles 20:20 Job 20:23 Isaiah 7:9 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 17:6

Numbers 20:12 · BSB

But 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.”

2 Chronicles 20:20 · BSB

Early 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; beli…

Job 20:23 · BSB

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

Isaiah 7:9 · BSB

The 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.’”

Jeremiah 17:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

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