2 Kings 6:19

Thisis not the way, neitheris this the city i.e. the way to Elisha, and the city where you shall find him.

I will bring you to the man whom ye seek But you shall find him in a place where you shall not be able to arrest him. Thus does Elisha use the glamour, or hallucination, under which these men were cast, to secure his own safety.

But[R.V. and] he led them to Samaria That there he might make himself known unto them; and they, still under the influence which had been supernaturally cast over them, followed him without alarm till they were within the walls of the strongly fortified royal city.