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2 Kings 7:3

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?

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KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

NHEB New Heart English Bible

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

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In context

1 Elisha said, “Hear the LORD’s word. The LORD says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

3 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?

4 If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

5 They rose up in the twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.

6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, even the noise of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us.”

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