Every time an enemy would set up an ambush-ment against Israel, the prophet of God would
tell Israel their plans. Finally this king got his servants together and said, "We must have a
traitor among us who is giving us away" (2 Kings 6:11).
The servants replied, "No, it is not us. A prophet of God in Israel tells the king of Israel what
you speak in your bedchamber." That was a supernatural revelation that God gave the prophet
Elisha to warn him of the enemy's plan to harm Israel.
The prophet couldn't have known what the king had said in his bedchamber and what he was
plotting because he wasn't there. No, the plans were revealed to him supernaturally by the
word of knowledge, and it saved Israel from danger.
The Word of Knowledge in the New Testament
Now let's look at some other examples of the word of knowledge in operation in the New
Testament. First of all, we see an example of the word of knowledge operating in Jesus'
ministry when He ministered to the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4.
The Word of Knowledge to Jesus Regarding the Woman at the Well
In dealing with the woman at the well in Samaria recorded in John chapter 4, Jesus operated
in the word of knowledge to convince a sinner of the need of a Savior.
JOHN 4:7,9,10,13-19,25,26
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water:
Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. ...
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest
drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the
Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that
saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have
given thee living water. . ..
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst
again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the
water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come
hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast
well said, I have no husband:
18 FOR THOU HAST HAD FIVE HUSBANDS; AND HE WHOM THOU NOW HAST IS NOT
THY HUSBAND: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.. . .
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when
he is come, he will tell us all things.