One of his servants said, “No, 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.”
A person can psychically hear private conversations happening in a distant, sealed room.
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What current science says
Sound is vibration traveling through air (or other media) and it weakens rapidly with distance. Normal speech at 60 decibels becomes inaudible beyond about 100 meters in open air — and walls reduce that dramatically. There's no known mechanism in physics that allows a human brain to receive acoustic information without sound waves reaching the ear. Every controlled scientific study of claimed psychic abilities, including clairaudience, has produced negative results. Your ears are good, but they're not satellite dishes.
What the text says
This comes from 2 Kings 6:12. A prophet could reportedly hear the private words spoken by a foreign king in his own bedchamber — a claim of clairaudience, or psychic hearing at a distance.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.