This is not the way, neither is this the city, to wit, where you will find the man for whom you seek; which was very true, because he was now come out of the city; and if they had gone on in that way into the city, they had found that Elisha was gone thence. There is indeed some ambiguity in his speech, and an intention to deceive them, which hath ever been esteemed lawful in the state of war, as appears from the use of stratagems. I will bring you to the man whom ye seek; and so he did, though not in such manner as they expected and desired. He led them to Samaria; which seemed to them to be some small and ordinary city; their senses being still deluded by a Divine operation.
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2 Kings 6:19
19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: followf me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.