2 Kings 7:7

Contextual Overview

³Now four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the city gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die? ³ 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? 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? ³Elisha Promises Food But Elisha said, "Hear the word of the Lord : thus says the Lord , Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria." Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the Lord himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it." Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die? ³ There were four men with a skin disease at the entrance to the city gate. They said to each other, "Why do we sit here until we die? ³ Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, "Why are we just sitting here waiting to die? ³Now four men who were lepers were at the entrance of the [city's] gate; and they said to one another, "Why should we sit here until we die? ³ Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die? ³ Nowe there were foure leprous men at the entring in of the gate: and they saide one to an other, Why sitte we here vntill we die? ³Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, "Why do we sit here until we die?

Bible Verse Review
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they arose: Job 18:11, Psalms 48:4-6, Psalms 68:12, Proverbs 21:1, Proverbs 28:1, Jeremiah 48:8, Jeremiah 48:9

their horses: Psalms 20:7, Psalms 20:8, Psalms 33:17, Amos 2:14-16

and fled for their life: Numbers 35:11, Numbers 35:12, Proverbs 6:5, Isaiah 2:20, Matthew 24:16-18, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:36 - I will send Deuteronomy 2:25 - General Judges 7:14 - into his hand Judges 7:21 - all the host 1 Samuel 14:15 - there was trembling 1 Samuel 17:53 - they spoiled 1 Kings 20:20 - the Syrians 2 Kings 7:10 - no man there 2 Chronicles 14:14 - exceeding Psalms 48:5 - were Psalms 53:5 - There Isaiah 7:2 - And his heart Jeremiah 46:5 - fled apace Jeremiah 49:5 - I will Ezekiel 7:19 - shall cast Amos 4:3 - them into the palace

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Genesis 6:18
And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you.

Genesis 6:18
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.

Genesis 6:18
but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 6:18
"But I will establish My covenant (solemn promise, formal agreement) with you; and you shall come into the ark—you and your [three] sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 6:18
"But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 6:18
But I solemnly promise that you, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law will be kept safe in the boat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight,.... Or in the dark, as the Targum; when the twilight was going off; so that the lepers came very quickly after they were gone, 2 Kings 7:5

and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses; such was their fright, that they could not stay to loose their cattle, with which they might have made greater speed, but ran away on foot: and they left

even the camp as it was; took nothing away with them, either money or provisions:

and fled for their life; which they imagined to be in great danger.