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2 Kings 7:3-5
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3 Now four men with a skin disease[a] were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, “Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?[b] 4 If we go into the city, we’ll die of starvation,[c] and if we stay here we’ll die! So come on, let’s defect[d] to the Syrian camp! If they spare us,[e] we’ll live; if they kill us—well, we were going to die anyway.”[f] 5 So they started toward[g] the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.

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  1. 2 Kings 7:3 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 5:1.
  2. 2 Kings 7:3 tn Heb “until we die.”
  3. 2 Kings 7:4 tn Heb “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city and we will die there.”
  4. 2 Kings 7:4 tn Heb “fall.”
  5. 2 Kings 7:4 tn Heb “keep us alive.”
  6. 2 Kings 7:4 tn Heb “we will die.” The paraphrastic translation attempts to bring out the logical force of their reasoning.
  7. 2 Kings 7:5 tn Heb “they arose to go to.”
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