2 Kings 7:14
12 So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’”
13 But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”
Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
15 And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
16 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
- KJV
- They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
- WEB
- Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them out to the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.”
- ASV
- They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
- DARBY
- And they took two chariots with their horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
- BLB
- And they took two chariot horses, and the king sent them in the direction of the camp of Aram, saying, “Go and see.”
- ÅB
- Da tok de to vogner med hester for, og kongen sendte dem etter syrernes hær og sa: Dra avsted og se hvordan det har seg!
- OTB
- Så de forberedte to vogner med hester, og kongen sendte dem etter arameernes hær, med instruksjon om, "Gå og se."
- B1930
- Da tok de to vogner med hester for, og kongen sendte dem efter syrernes hær og sa: Dra avsted og se hvordan det har sig!