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?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
2 Kings 7:3
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?
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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?
WEB World 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?
ASV American Standard Version
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?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, ‘What—we are sitting here till we have died;
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 7
1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, 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 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would 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 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?
4 If 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 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there.
6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
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וְאַרְבָּעָ֧הH702 · ar.bafourאֲנָשִׁ֛יםH582 · e.noshhumanהָי֥וּH1961 · ha.yahto beמְצֹרָעִ֖יםH6879 · tsa.rabe leprousפֶּ֣תַחH6607 · pe.tachentranceהַשָּׁ֑עַרH8179 · sha.argateוַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙H559 · a.marto sayאִ֣ישׁH376 · ishmanאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)רֵעֵ֔הוּH7453 · re.aneighborמָ֗הH4100 · mahwhat?אֲנַ֛חְנוּH587 · a.nach.nuweיֹשְׁבִ֥יםH3427 · ya.shavto dwellפֹּ֖הH6311 · pohhereעַד־H5704 · adtillמָֽתְנוּ׃H4191 · mutto die
Cross-references
Leviticus 13:45-46And the leper in whom the plague [is], his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.Numbers 5:2-4Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:2 Kings 7:4If 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.Numbers 12:14And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].2 Kings 5:1Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a leper.Jeremiah 27:13Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?2 Kings 8:4And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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