They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Did I not tell you, 'Do not go?'"

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Behold, this disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"

Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for the LORD has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years."

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;