2 Kings 7:3
World English Bible (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?
In context
1 Elisha said, “Hear the LORD’s word. The LORD says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”
2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if the LORD made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”
3 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?
4 If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we will die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let’s surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”
5 They rose up in the twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.
2 Kings 7:3 in every translation
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?