2 Kings 7:3
Berean Standard Bible (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?
In context
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.”
3 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.
2 Kings 7:3 in every translation
- 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?
- 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?
- WEB World English Bible
- 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 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- 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?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?