Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
There is that
speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
Proverbs Chapter 12 verse 18.
The Lord GOD
hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word
in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth
mine ear to hear as the learned. Isaiah Chapter 50 verse 4.
The city of Samaria experienced and suffered famine that
resulted in skyrocketing inflation and cannibalism that was threatening to
become the norm in Samaria. The famine was a consequence of the long standing
siege by the army of Syria against Samaria.
Bewildered, afraid, the King threatened to kill the prophet Elisha. But
Elisha was unperturbed. He prophesied a drastic reduction in the prices of food
stuff by the following day irrespective of the fact that the siege was still
on, the army of Syria appeared immovable and the people of Samaria had no
military prowess against them. Was Elisha playing a crude joke on the nation? Was
he insensitive to the plight of the people?
