2 Kings 7:3
1 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
2 But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
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?
4 If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
5 So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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?
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- 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?
- ASV
- 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?
- DARBY
- And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?
- BLB
- And four leprous men were at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?
- ÅB
- Foran byporten var det fire spedalske menn; de sa til hverandre: Hvorfor skal vi bli sittende her til vi dør?
- OTB
- Nå var det fire menn med spedalskhet ved inngangen til porten; og de sa til hverandre, "Hvorfor sitter vi her til vi dør?
- B1930
- Foran byporten var det fire spedalske menn; de sa til hverandre: Hvorfor skal vi bli sittende her til vi dør?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 13:45–46
A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Read in contextNumbers 5:2–4
“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
Read in context2 Kings 7:4
If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
Read in contextJeremiah 8:14
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Read in context2 Kings 8:4
Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
Read in contextJeremiah 27:13
Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
Read in contextNumbers 12:14
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
Read in context2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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