Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
2 Kings 6:1—7:20
1Now
the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we
dwell under your charge is too small for us. 2Let us go to
the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place
for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.” 3Then
one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he
answered, “I will go.” 4So he went with them. And when
they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 5But as one
was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried
out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.” 6Then the man
of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place,
he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.
7And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand
and took it.
8Once
when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel
with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my
camp.” 9But the man of God sent word to the king of
Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians
are going down there.” 10And the king of Israel sent to
the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn
him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
11And
the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this
thing, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not
show me who of us is for the king of Israel?” 12And one
of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the
prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you
speak in your bedroom.” 13And he said, “Go and see
where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him,
“Behold, he is in Dothan.” 14So he sent there horses
and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded
the city.
15When
the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out,
behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And
the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” 16He
said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than
those who are with them.” 17Then Elisha prayed and said,
“O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord
opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the
mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha
prayed to the Lord and said, “Please strike this people with
blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the
prayer of Elisha. 19And Elisha said to them, “This is
not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring
you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.
20As
soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open the eyes
of these men, that they may see.” So the Lord opened their eyes and
they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 21As
soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father,
shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?” 22He
answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down
those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow?
Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go
to their master.” 23So he prepared for them a great
feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they
went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids
into the land of Israel.
24Afterward
Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and
besieged Samaria. 25And there was a great famine in
Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for
eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s
dung for five shekels of silver. 26Now as the king of
Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying,
“Help, my lord, O king!” 27And he said, “If the Lord
will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or
from the winepress?” 28And the king asked her, “What
is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give
your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son
tomorrow.’ 29So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the
next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But
she has hidden her son.” 30When the king heard the words
of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the
wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on
his body— 31and he said, “May God do so to me and more
also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his
shoulders today.”
32Elisha
was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now
the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the
messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this
murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger
comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the
sound of his master’s feet behind him?” 33And while he
was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and
said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I wait for the
Lord any longer?”
1But
Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord,
Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a
shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of
Samaria.” 2Then the captain on whose hand the king
leaned said to the man of God, “If the Lord himself should make
windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall
see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
3Now
there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And
they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?
4If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in
the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So
now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare
our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.” 5So
they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when
they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was
no one there. 6For the Lord had made the army of the
Syrians hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a
great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of
Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings
of Egypt to come against us.” 7So they fled away in the
twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys,
leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives. 8And
when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent
and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing
and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent
and carried off things from it and went and hid them.
9Then
they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a
day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light,
punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell
the king’s household.” 10So they came and called to
the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of
the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there,
nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as
they were.” 11Then the gatekeepers called out, and it
was told within the king’s household. 12And the king
rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what
the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore
they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open
country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take
them alive and get into the city.’” 13And one of his
servants said, “Let some men take five of the remaining horses,
seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole
multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.”
14So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after
the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.” 15So
they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way
was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown
away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.
16Then
the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah
of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a
shekel, according to the word of the Lord. 17Now the king
had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of
the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died,
as the man of God had said when the king came down to him. 18For
when the man of God had said to the king, “Two seahs of barley
shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel,
about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,” 19the
captain had answered the man of God, “If the Lord himself should
make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said,
“You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
20And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him
in the gate and he died.
Collect
Lord
God, creator of heaven and earth, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we
praise You for the abundant mercy that You this day so richly have
provided for us, blessing us not only with daily bread for our bodies
but also with heavenly food for our souls. Grant that Your living and
powerful Word may abide in our hearts, working mightily in us to Your
glory and for our salvation. We commit ourselves to Your divine
protection and fatherly care. Let Your holy angels be with us that
the evil foe may have no power over us. Look in mercy on Your Church
and deliver it from all danger and adversities. By Your Holy Spirit
comfort and strengthen all who are in affliction or distress, and
grant Your abiding peace to us all; through Jesus Christ, our Savior.
521
Christ, the Lord of Hosts, Unshaken
LSB 521
1 Christ,
the Lord of hosts, unshaken
By the devil’s seething rage,
Thwarts the plan of Satan’s minions;
Wins the strife from age to age;
Conquers sin and death forever;
Slams them in their steely cage.
By the devil’s seething rage,
Thwarts the plan of Satan’s minions;
Wins the strife from age to age;
Conquers sin and death forever;
Slams them in their steely cage.
2 Michael
fought the heav’nly battle,
Godly angels by his side;
Warred against the ancient serpent,
Foiled the beast, so full of pride,
Cast him earthbound with his angels;
Now he prowls, unsatisfied.
Godly angels by his side;
Warred against the ancient serpent,
Foiled the beast, so full of pride,
Cast him earthbound with his angels;
Now he prowls, unsatisfied.
3 Long
on earth the battle rages,
Since the serpent’s first deceit;
Twisted God’s command to Adam,
Made forbidden fruit look sweet.
Then the curse of God was spoken:
“You’ll lie crushed beneath His feet!”
Since the serpent’s first deceit;
Twisted God’s command to Adam,
Made forbidden fruit look sweet.
Then the curse of God was spoken:
“You’ll lie crushed beneath His feet!”
4 Jesus
came, this word fulfilling,
Trampled Satan, death defied;
Bore the brunt of our temptation,
On the wretched tree He died.
Yet to life was raised victorious;
By His life our life supplied.
Trampled Satan, death defied;
Bore the brunt of our temptation,
On the wretched tree He died.
Yet to life was raised victorious;
By His life our life supplied.
5 Swift
as lightning falls the tyrant
From his heav’nly perch on high,
As the word of Jesus’ vict’ry
Floods the earth and fills the sky.
Wounded by a wound eternal
Now his judgment has drawn nigh!
From his heav’nly perch on high,
As the word of Jesus’ vict’ry
Floods the earth and fills the sky.
Wounded by a wound eternal
Now his judgment has drawn nigh!
6 Jesus,
send Your angel legions
When the foe would us enslave.
Hold us fast when sin assaults us;
Come, then, Lord, Your people save.
Overthrow at last the dragon;
Send him to his fiery grave.
When the foe would us enslave.
Hold us fast when sin assaults us;
Come, then, Lord, Your people save.
Overthrow at last the dragon;
Send him to his fiery grave.
© Peter M. Prange. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License .NET, no. 100011178.
Apostles'
Creed
C I
believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker
of heaven and earth.
And
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who
was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born
of the virgin Mary,
suffered
under Pontius Pilate,
was
crucified, died and was buried.
He
descended into hell.
The
third day He rose again from the dead.
He
ascended into heaven
and
sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From
thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the
holy Christian Church,
the
communion of saints,
the
forgiveness of sins,
the
resurrection of the body,
and
the life T everlasting.
Amen.
Lord's
Prayer
C Our
Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;
give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Benediction
(Aaronic)
P The
Lord bless you and keep you.
The
Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.
The
Lord look upon you with favor and T give
you peace.
C Amen.
Acknowledgments
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otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All
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