Relief is here brought to Samaria and her king, when the case is, in a manner, desperate, and the king despairing. I. It is foretold by Elisha, and an unbelieving lord shut out from the benefit of it, 2 Kings 7:1–2. II. It is brought about, 1.

Here, I. Elisha foretels that, notwithstanding the great straits to which the city of Samaria is reduced, yet within twenty-four hours they shall have plenty, 2 Kings 7:1. The king of Israel despaired of it and grew weary of waiting: then Elisha foretold it, when things were at the worst.

We are here told, I. How the siege of Samaria was raised in the evening, at the edge of night , not by might or power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, striking terror upon the spirits of the besiegers.

Here we have, I. The king’s jealousy of a stratagem in the Syrian’s retreat, 2 Kings 7:12. He feared that they had withdrawn into an ambush, to draw out the besieged, that they might fall on them with more advantage.