Then Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You will surely recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he will certainly die."The king had sent a messenger to Elisha, to see if he would recover from his illness. God showed Elisha two things. First, that the illness was not fatal, and therefore he should recover. Second, that he would not die from the illness, but that he would die while he was still sick.
Both were true, but the way this is written, it appears that Elisha is telling the messenger to lie. God has shown Elisha that the king will die, but Elisha tells the messenger to say he will recover. As it turns out later, the messenger kills the king, so Elisha was telling the truth. But where did the two messages come from? Was God saying to lie to the king, or was that Elisha's doing?
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