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2 Kings 7:3

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Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

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2 Kings 7:3 in other translations

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

2 Kings 7:3 · World English Bible

2 Kings 7:3 in context

  1. 1And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith Jehovah, To-morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
  2. 2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
  3. 3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
  4. 4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
  5. 5And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.