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Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Kings 6:24-33.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

2 Kings 6:24-30 (NIV)
24  Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria.
25  There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.
26  As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

On verses 24-30:  King Ben-Hadad of Aram has laid seige to Samaria, Israel’s capital city.  Without access to food, Samaria suffers a severe famine.  The Israelites in Samaria are so desperate that in verses 26-29 we read about two Israelite mothers who apparently agreed that they would eat their sons to survive.  Now that one mother’s son has been eaten, the other mother refuses to let her own son suffer the same fate. 

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Kings 5:13-27.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Kings 5:13-14 (NIV) 
13  Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!” 
14  So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. 

On verses 13-14:  Elisha had told Naaman to wash himself seven times in the Jordan River and his leprosy would be cleansed. Naaman was outraged at how “unspiritual” Elisha’s advice was, believing Elisha’s advice to be purely practical and natural instead of supernatural (v11-12).  Yet his servants advise Naaman to take Elisha’s advice seriously (v13).  Naaman follows Elisha’s advice.  When he dips himself 7 times in the Jordan River, his leprosy is cleansed and his skin is restored (v14).

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Kings 4:18-44.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Kings 4:18-37 (NIV)
18  The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.
19  “My head! My head!” he said to his father. His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20  After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
21  She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

On verses 18-37:  Here God uses Elisha to raise a dead boy back to life.  We’ll look at some of the lessons we can learn from this incredible miracle when we talk about verses 42-44.

But for now notice that the Shunammite woman was willing to pour out her heart in front of Elisha, but not in front of Elisha’s servant Gehazi.