(A)The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning responded to the man of God and said, “(B)Even if the Lord were to make [a]windows in heaven, could this thing happen?” Then he said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat [b]any of it.”

Four Men with Leprosy Report Arameans’ Flight

Now there were four (C)leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; but if we sit here, we will also die. Now then come, and let’s go over to (D)the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, then we will die.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 7:2 Or hatches
  2. 2 Kings 7:2 Lit from there

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