2 Kings 7:1

2 Kings 7:1. Hear ye the word of the Lord Having seen the change in the king's disposition, even though it were a change to despondency, rather than trust, Elisha in the name of the Lord gives a solemn assurance that help is nigh. This he does in the presence of the elders who had been sitting with him, and of those persons who had come in the king's retinue.

a measure of fine flourbe sold for a shekel The measure is the Hebrew seah, which is said to be about a peck. It was six times as much as the Kabmentioned in 2 Kings 6:5. So that the change which Elisha foretells would provide six times as much good food for one-fifth of the price for which, in the famine, the vilest had been sold.

in the gate of Samaria Where people congregated for markets and other purposes.