2 Kings 7
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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Kings 7:3-8

3Now there were four 1leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? 4If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us 2go over to 3the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.” 5They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there. 6For 4the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us 5the kings of the Hittites and 6the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.” 7Therefore they 7arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life. 8When these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and 8carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also, and went and hid them.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Kings 7:3 Lev 13:45, 46; Num 5:2-4; 12:10-14 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 7:4 Lit fall ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 7:4 2 Kin 6:24 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Kings 7:6 2 Sam 5:24 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Kings 7:6 1 Kin 10:29 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Kings 7:6 2 Chr 12:2, 3; Is 31:1; 36:9 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Kings 7:7 Ps 48:4-6; Prov 28:1 ↩
  8. 8. 2 Kings 7:8 Josh 7:21 ↩

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