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
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hid it: 2 Kings 5:24, Joshua 7:21, Jeremiah 41:8, Matthew 13:44, Matthew 25:18
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 14:14 - exceeding Isaiah 33:23 - the lame Ezekiel 7:19 - shall cast Amos 2:16 - flee Amos 4:3 - them into the palace
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent,.... The first they came to:
and did eat and drink; which was the first thing they did, being hungry, and almost starved:
and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; in a place without the camp, where they thought it would be safe, and where they could come at it again:
and came again and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it; this, Josephus says z, they did four times.
z Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 4.) sect. 5.
