“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?”
2 Kings 7:3 (WEB)
Context Reading
1Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seahof fine flour will be sold for a shekel,and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’” 2Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.” 3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die? 4If 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.” 5They 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.